In a recent exchange at a meeting for the Committee on Small Business, Congressman David Schweikert decided to ask the panel of distinguished guests about the possibility of Bitcoin as a long term threat to the US dollar. Although he admitted that this is nothing to worry about over the short term, the reality is that we don’t know where we’ll be ten years from now. Even if Bitcoin is not the cryptocurrency of the future, we could be facing a situation where some form of stateless money is eventually preferred over fiat currency.