Sunday, July 19, 2015

Bitcoin: A Solution For Global Travelers as Payment Systems Become More Centralized

Bitcoin’s decentralized platform of distributed trust continues to gain the attention of astute observers of centralized payment systems. One benefit bitcoin provides in today’s global economy is being a global currency. Bret Swanson, writing in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, claims bitcoin can alleviate the problems international travelers increasingly encounter when making payments in foreign countries. Swanson, president of Entropy Economics, a technology economic research firm, and Entropy Capital, a venture capital firm, relates the difficulty he recently encountered when his teenage daughter needed to pay for things during a trip to France. A few days before the trip, he loaded prepaid […]

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