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Why is the Agriculture Committee looking at cryptocurrency?

The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing yesterday about cryptocurrency. Why Agriculture? The committee has jurisdiction over the trading of commodities, which one would typically think of as things like meat or metals, not digital money. But it's still an open question if cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, are in fact commodities....

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