This is a an important moment for cryptocurrency. A Supreme Court justice acknowledged in a published opinion that future employers may pay their employees in Bitcoin. In discussing the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, his most important statement was "Nothing in the statute suggests the meaning of this provision should be trapped in a monetary time warp, forever limited to those forms of money commonly used in the 1930's." This is an outright acknowledgement that how we define money will change over time, just as it has for the past 8,000 years. The first court acknowledgement that we can have other forms of currency beyond fiat that specifically names Bitcoin as an alternative.

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