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At the end of June 2013, after the German Parliament decided to exempt Bitcoin from tax for holding for more than one year, Bitcoin was recognized as a "unit of account" by the German Ministry of Finance. In August, Amos Mazzant, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the State of Texas, ruled in a case involving a Bitcoin virtual hedge fund that Bitcoin is a currency and should be included in the scope of financial regulations.