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Friday 26 July 2013

Bitcoin Virtual Currency Workshop

Europe's Customer Festival
Total Payments Spectogram Workshop
16 - 17 September 2013, Business Design Center, Islington, London

Michael Parsons discusses the gains and challenges of virtual currency with a focus on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin – The Future of Money & Payments?

After dinner speech given on 18 June 2013 to members of the Real Time Club
at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE

  • What, exactly, is Bitcoin?
  • Who invented it and who controls it?
  • How is it created? 
  • Will Bitcoin replace State-sponsored currencies?
  • Is it a threat or an opportunity for governments?
  • Can a state adopt its own cryptocurrency?

In an age of e-commerce and electronic trading, where transactions are performed with a credit card, computer or a mobile device, could currency as we know it disappear altogether?

“Bitcoin is the New Frontier” - Erik Voorhees

Erik Voorhees is one of the foremost Bitcoin entrepreneurs and has helped build some critical parts of the Bitcoin business ecosystem, as well as being a loud advocate for a free, decentralised and voluntary currency. 
When the history of Bitcoin is written, he will be remembered as one of the brave few explorers ready to set out into the unknown and risk life and fortune to create a new world.
Read the full Q&A here