In just over a decade, Bitcoin has turned from an idea into one of the most talked-about financial assets.
El Salvador's president is planning to make his country the first to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
But as some countries embrace cryptocurrencies, others are cracking down because of its use by criminal gangs.
So what does the future hold for digital money?
Presenter: Sohail Rahman
Guests:
Thibault Schrepel - Assistant Professor in Economic Law, Utrecht University.
Delaram Kahrobaei - Chair of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science, University of York.
John Biggs - Journalist and entrepreneur
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El Salvador's president is planning to make his country the first to accept Bitcoin as legal tender.
But as some countries embrace cryptocurrencies, others are cracking down because of its use by criminal gangs.
So what does the future hold for digital money?
Presenter: Sohail Rahman
Guests:
Thibault Schrepel - Assistant Professor in Economic Law, Utrecht University.
Delaram Kahrobaei - Chair of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science, University of York.
John Biggs - Journalist and entrepreneur
- Subscribe to our channel:
- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish
- Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst BTC can be trusted to do what it meant to do from the beginning. Changing it into just a speculative tool or in other rapid ways to get profit is not what BTC is, and it will lead to failure. So everything will depend on what we do with it, and the evolution of crypto itself.