Sure, this article appears bizarre 100 years after it was written. Yet, if you look at the current regulatory frenzy around crypto, this is equally bizarre. I hope that 100 years from now, using crypto is completely normal for transactions of all sorts, so that people will only laugh about the bizarre attempts to stop this invention.
1908: "Representative Thompson Introduces Bill to Put "Devil Wagons" Out of Business in the State of Kentucky"
2014:
http://www.coindesk.com/us-senator-bitcoin-ban-letter-federal-regulators/Maybe in 10-20 years, banks will use the crypto network infrastructure for their transactions just like they use the internet today?
It is no coincidence that Wells Fargo is relatively crypto friendly, a company that has seen a lot of change in their 150 year history. They started out with horse carriages too
