This is the response I got: Hello *redacted* — absolutely not.  Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a sham at this stage and investing in an extremely volatile and easily manipulated "commodity" is irresponsible and foolhardy.  The global economy is based on the dollar and doing anything that weakens our economic strength only serves to weaken our economic power and creates a void that the likes of Putin and other autocratic dictators will try and fill.

Our economy is the strongest in the world and I will not weaken it.

Thanks again for your email,

Charlie   

 This is still extremely helpful. It puts the idea on the radar.  Did you know that the investigators involved with the Silk Road are now heavily involved with bitcoin? 
—Btc is a black hole that uses basic human instincts to suck you in.
#GameTheory
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 I wrote him back in the most cordial way that I could. I offered to  meet him in person to discuss the merits. We'll see.