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Is the Bitcoin ATM the Future of Money?
Are these Bitcoin ATMs really the future of money? Mike Piri of Bitcoin Agents and MyLocalBitcoinATM.com thinks so.
"We put it in these places because people pass by them every day, they see it, maybe they'll become curious, maybe they'll buy ten dollars," says Piri, who installed a Bitcoin ATM at HandleBar in downtown Austin, TX.
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that can be used online or wherever Bitcoin is accepted. Users can add or withdraw cash from their Bitcoin wallet (a QR...
Related topics : bitcoin money of the future / bitcoin currency of the future
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin: Q&A with Filmmakers Nicholas and Dan Mross
"In the past, we've had the need for authority to make sure people stayed in the lines," says Dan Mross, a subject in the new documentary The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin. "Bitcoin kind of encodes that into the software itself. So there's not much to say against something that's a cheap, proven, honest, transparent money system."
Reason TV correspondent Naomi Brockwell caught up with Dan and his brother, Nicholas Mross, the movie's director, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. They discuss...
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Why Bitcoin is Here to Stay: Q&A with Jerry Brito
Don't bet on the decentralized currency Bitcoin as a retirement investment, says Mercatus Center policy analyst Jerry Brito, but go long on it as the payment system of the future. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Brito, the editor of the new anthology Copyright Unbalanced, about Bitcoin bubbles and why governments are so afraid of this virtual payment system.
For Reason's archive on Bitcoin click here (http://reason.com/search?q=bitcoin).
About 5.20 minutes.
Interview by Nick Gillespie....
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