Regional Bitcoin equivalents have popped up in Iceland, Czech Republic, Spain and Greece, all this year, created in the hope of bolstering local economies.
It’s not uncommon for such ‘community currencies’ to emerge in difficult times – when traditional currencies fail Continue reading “Me in Easyjet Magazine: Quoted on Bitcoin”
NEF Blog: Why Bitcoin hasn’t changed finance – yet
Last week I was invited to talk about Bitcoin and the future of money at the Sibos conference in Boston, an annual get-together of the payment systems industry: the people working in between your bank account and that of anyone … Read the rest
TV: Sibos Boston – SWIFT Bitcoin Panel
Subtitles: WIR Bank – Promotional Video
Requested by Thomas Greco, approved by the WIR spokesperson, I translated this video into English.
More about the WIR Bank here:
http://community-currency.info/en/currencies/wir-bank
Interview: The Guardian – Bitcoin
Bitcoin is having its moment but there are better sustainable currencies
The crypto currency’s liberating features are undone by its susceptibility to fraud. With other options out there, Bitcoin may not be the best bet.
Bitcoin suffers two other major downsides, neither of them headline-grabbers Continue reading “Interview: The Guardian – Bitcoin”