Overstock.com (OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne was an early supporter of bitcoin and blockchain, bitcoin’s underlying technology, despite continued skepticism of cryptocurrencies. “This dollar stuff, it’s just some fiat currency based on … the surplus taxing authority of the U.S. Treasury of which I assert there is zero ... It’s about time the world switches to real money. Either gold or bitcoin,” Byrne told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo in November. Byrne has not only been outspoken about...

Tony Sayegh, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the potential economic impact of the Republican tax reform bill. The Republican tax bill, which was approved by lawmakers in both the House and Senate on Wednesday, is now headed to President Donald Trump’s desk, where he is expected to sign it even though it still includes one provision that he promised to remove throughout his presidential campaign. During a speech he made detailing his economic agenda in August 2016, then-candidate Trump...