This Is The Plan To Turn Bitcoin Into A Currency That People Actually Use

Stacks of bitcoins sit near green lights on a data cable terminal inside a communications room at an office in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., , Bloomberg

Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, Bloomberg News

Jan 14, 2019

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Bitcoin is now over 10 years old, and by all accounts it's exceeded anything people could've imagined for it. But even at its recent peak, there was very little active use of Bitcoin in normal commerce. On this week's episode, we speak with Bitcoin maximalist Pierre Rochard of Bitcoin Advisory on why he's still a believer in the currency, and the technological developments being done to make it useful for normal spending.

 

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To contact the editor responsible for this story: Topher Forhecz at tforhecz@bloomberg.net

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