Has anyone even gotten to speak to Ron Paul about his stance on Bitcoin? and Whether or not he supports the idea, I see on his website as mentioned earlier in this post he says he does not accept them.

But some how, it is needed to find out his opinions and views some how on Bitcoin, and see if he is actually PRO Bitcoin or ANTI Bitcoin, it's very well for people to just assume based on what he says with other things etc that he maybe Pro Bitcoin, but realistically he may very well hate the idea, not understand it or has been mis informed.

He obviously has a number of hoops to jump through before you can contact him and get a direct answer from the man himself?

I am not an American citizen so I do not know enough about Ron Paul, I have seen many you tube videos which he impresses me, but we really need to find out:

A) Does He Understand Bitcoin
B) Does He understand the possibilities
C) If He does know the above what is his true opinion, For or Against Bitcoin

Thanks!

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Has anyone even gotten to speak to Ron Paul about his stance on Bitcoin? and Whether or not he supports the idea, I see on his website as mentioned earlier in this post he says he does not accept them.

But some how, it is needed to find out his opinions and views some how on Bitcoin, and see if he is actually PRO Bitcoin or ANTI Bitcoin, it's very well for people to just assume based on what he says with other things etc that he maybe Pro Bitcoin, but realistically he may very well hate the idea, not understand it or has been mis informed.

He obviously has a number of hoops to jump through before you can contact him and get a direct answer from the man himself?

I am not an American citizen so I do not know enough about Ron Paul, I have seen many you tube videos which he impresses me, but we really need to find out:

A) Does He Understand Bitcoin
B) Does He understand the possibilities
C) If He does know the above what is his true opinion, For or Against Bitcoin

Thanks!

To clarify this: I added the option after a few users had requested to donate. I had not spoken with Ron Paul's campaign. They don't actually accept Bitcoins. The idea was to sell Bitcoins at market value and then send a USD check. Essentially sending them "Bitcoin money"  I had thought this was clear and it was not intended to mislead people in to thinking we had a special relationship or they accepted Bitcoin.

A few hours later we saw how much attention this was getting and reevaluated. We disabled the withdrawal method and sent the funds back to the users accounts. At this point there has been and will not be any money sent to Ron Paul from TradeHill.

I sincerely apologize, this was my mistake and would like to thank everyone for their support.

Regards,
Jered

To clarify this: I added the option after a few users had requested to donate. I had not spoken with Ron Paul's campaign. They don't actually accept Bitcoins. The idea was to sell Bitcoins at market value and then send a USD check. Essentially sending them "Bitcoin money"  I had thought this was clear and it was not intended to mislead people in to thinking we had a special relationship or they accepted Bitcoin.

A few hours later we saw how much attention this was getting and reevaluated. We disabled the withdrawal method and sent the funds back to the users accounts. At this point there has been and will not be any money sent to Ron Paul from TradeHill.

I sincerely apologize, this was my mistake and would like to thank everyone for their support.

Regards,
Jered

maybe you can set up a seperated page that takes BTC payments, converts them to USD...

I believe your were flirting with the "third rail" of business; "never discuss politics".

IMHO businesspeople, while in the business envoronment, should generally not discuss politics or religion. Business is business.

You did the right thing by stepping out of politics.