Texas GOP Seeks to Enshrine Cryptocurrency in the State's Constitution
The Texas GOP seeks to enshrine cryptocurrency in the state's constitution. The state is already an important cryptocurrency mining hub, and Republican officials are poised to try and capitalize on that momentum.
The Texas GOP platform calls for the state’s Bill of Rights to include a clause allowing citizens to own, hold, and use whatever medium of exchange they choose, including digital currency, according to Coindesk. “The right of the people to own, hold and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange, including cash, coin, bullion, digital currency or scrip, when trading and contracting for goods and services shall not be infringed,” begins the clause Texas Republicans would like to see added to the state's Bill of Rights.
“No government shall prohibit or encumber the ownership or holding of any form or amount of money or other currency,” the platform continues. “Explicit protections [are needed] for the natural right of Texans to keep and exchange and store their wealth in the mediums of exchange of [their] choice.”
Many Republican officials in the state want Texas to solidify its status as a cryptocurrency hub, despite concerns from some lawmakers that the industry could overwhelm an already overburdened power grid. “I would like to see Texas become the center of the universe for bitcoin and crypto,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said at the Texas Blockchain Summit last October in Austin.
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WTF ????
What's this all about? The only thing I know it that it's bad for the country because Republicans want it.
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Protecting the people of Texas is none of my fucking business! I stay out of yours, you stay out of mine, I thought that was common sense and practically THE LAW OF THE LAND? 
*Well besides high gas and would now cost $400 each way in just gas, and that is a big HELL NO!
Good luck ya'll may need it, sooner rather than later?
Drought and heat, damn we all got some serious issues.
Arctic shelf melting was indicator I was watching, so I am less surprised than most, maybe?
These leaders must not give a shit about anyone else, even their families, because you can have tons of money, but if not livable, you dead, they dead, all dead, value be gone, and you just as dead and death is broke AF. 
Crypto-currencies were invented by "anarchists" (who have no idea what anarchy actually is) as a way to avoid paying taxes and keep the government from knowing how much money you have. Of course they want the use of everything tax dollars pay for in their "anarchist" utopia. 
This entire movement is going to crumble one day when the inventor(s) of the "block chain" (which can never be destroyed as long as one computer is up and running, right? 
) cleans everyone out using a backdoor he/they installed.
People are so freaking gullible. 🙄
But you go ahead, Texas. You're smarter than everyone else in the world combined.
You have a very bright future in economics, prodigitalson. 
Of course no one will ever get up off the couch, but what a peaceful world it will be. 
Oh wait, it's the Texas GOP. They have the wrong answer to everything. 