Executive Order 6102 and how the complicated history of gold in the United States ties into bitcoin — Executive Order 6102 “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” — Mark Twain On April 5, 1933, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, “forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States.” Executive Order 6102 came as President Roosevelt was entering just…