The founder of an oldest private antivirus software company John Mcfee, who announced his presidential bid in September, starts accepting donations in bitcoin.

A link to his BitPay page appeared on his Tweeter account with a comment: "OK I'm counting on all of you who said you wanted to donate with #bitcoin here's the link."

With his newly founded Cyber Party, McAfee is going to fight "governmental bureaucracy" and improve the security of the US cyberspace, as he believes that "cyberwar is inevitable".

In-kind donations in digital currency have been approved by the Federal Elections Committee last year, with their amount being limited to $2,700 per election cycle. The donations cannot be anonymous.

McAfee is not the first presidential hopeful to pay its due to the bitcoin digital currency. Rand Paul, a libertarian Kentucky senator representing the Republican Party, who vowed to bring the United States "back to the principles of liberty and limited government", accepts bitcoin donations, claiming that his campaign is going to be "the most technologically savvy" one.

A group of Joe Biden's supporters "Draft Biden 2016" also accepts donations in bitcoin, though a single donation is limited to $100 per person and cannot be made anonymously (donators are required to fill in a special form). Still, Biden's fans can not purchase any advertisement goods such as stickers and T-shorts for cryptocurrency, bitcoin option being available only for donations.

Apart from that, the longest-serving ex-governor of Texas Rick Perry who is also running for president made a harsh statement saying that the Wall Street "should not be let off the hook for its bad behaviour", adding that more freedom should be given to Bitcoin and other digital currencies:

"We should create regulatory breathing room for banking with digital currencies, like Bitcoin. Digital currencies harbor the possibility of reducing the cost and improving the quality of financial transactions in much the same way that the conventional internet has done for consumer goods and services," he said. 

Maria Rudina