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White House: Bitcoin 'being monitored' for possible regulation

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Bitcoin fluctuates in value, and people who gain income are supposed to pay taxes. Fewer than 900 people, however, reported gains between 2013 and 2015, Bloomberg reported. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that officials are monitoring the digital currency bitcoin for possible regulation.

"I know this is something that's being monitored by our team here," Sanders said at the daily White House press briefing.

Sanders said that Tom Bossert, a presidential adviser on national security issues, mentioned bitcoin in...

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A woman from Long Island, N.Y., was indicted Thursday after she allegedly stole more than $85,000 and converted the money to Bitcoin and similar virtual currencies to provide support to the Islamic State.

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