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Bitcoin millionaire puts money on Greens in German election

by Frank Jordans
| April 26, 2021 12:03 AM

BERLIN (AP) — A German software developer who made a fortune from bitcoin has given the environmentalist Green Party one of the biggest political donations in the country's history in hopes it will win this year's national election — and consider banning the digital currency.

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