Facing strong criticism from the House ethics committee -- although no finding of legal misconduct -- Mr. Gingrich decided to return the payment and accept a $1 fee followed by royalties based on sales.
Consequently, small businesses using Bitcoin are protected from what is known as chargeback fraud, in which a customer challenges a payment from, say, their credit card, and the bank forces the merchant to return the payment (and often collects penalty fees).
The issue achieved prominence in 2010 after the multi-millionaire businessman Lord Sugar complained about the practical obstacles he encountered when he tried and failed to return the payment.
This suggests that the 29 who decided to return the payment this winter saved the government an additional sum somewhere between £2,900 and £8,700 (the DWP told us it could not supply an exact figure).
Wisconsin Democratic Party chairwoman Martha Laning and Missouri Democratic National Committeeman Curtis Wylde likewise called on her to retroactively donate it and return the payment.
When Nicholson, now appointed governor of Maryland, arrived in July, he found the provincial treasury empty, and testily demanded that Andros return the payment.
In a scathing op-ed, the Chicago Tribune urged Duncan to return the payment "to do something good for the schools and set an example for everyone who works there".
Mr. Rodham returned the payments on Wednesday.
After the payments to Mr. Rodham were disclosed on Wednesday, Mr. McAuliffe condemned Mr. Rodham's actions as "absolutely wrong". Mr. Rodham returned the payments on Wednesday.
By Emily Eakin January 20 , 2017In a gesture of opposition to Donald Trump, the artist Richard Prince disowned a commissioned work he had made in 2014 featuring Ivanka Trump and returned the payment he had received for it.
