Mark Carney on Bitcoin

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Paxo:
  I wonder when you look at these so called “Cryptocurrencies”,
  like Bitcoin and the like, do you ever think that the life 
  expectency of somebody in your position — the life expectency
  of national bank governers is distinctly limited?

Mark Carney:
  Urr you know I don't, actually. For this reason:
  (and Certainly it's interesting what's happening in this regard)

  The experience of what I would call free banking - the experience
  in the 19th Century in the US and Canada where banks themselves
  could issue their own notes. Was that you had much higher rates
  of failure because almost inevitably, but not in every case, you
  had the incentive to issue more notes in order keep things going
  is there. Whether those notes are electronic and physical there
  is a need to have an independent entity — this is what we've 
  learnt over centuries — with a clear remit like a 2% inflation
  target as the Bank of England does. That is accountable to people
   and part of that accountability is urr... meeting you.

Jezza:
  Do you have any bitcoins yourself?

Carney:
  I do not

Jez:
  Would you like to have some?

Carney:
  I can't invest any money so urr... investing my children, Jeremy.