Bitcoin is a decentralized and uncontrolled form of digital currency. The rise and phenomenal fluctuations of bitcoin are attracting investors' interest in the most famous cryptocurrency
Paul is nicknamed a "minor", it is a person paid in bitcoins, virtual currency, to validate the transactions of this cryptocurrency from home. He briefly explains the principle of the validation of bitcoin transactions.
Example of the use of bitcoin, alternative currency, in a Berlin bar. The transaction is done by smartphone and is completely virtual. The manager of the establishment talks about the currency of the future.
Interview with Thomas LELONG, director of the report "the dark side of the web" dedicated to darknet. He evokes the issue of Bitcoin, an alternative currency originally created following the financial crisis of 2009 and which is already worth 275 euros. This currency is also a monitored payment system, because of money laundering.
Interview of Eric Larchevêque, co-founder of the House of Bitcoin. He presents his project: it is a place to advise entrepreneurs and convince them to adopt exchanges with this cryptocurrency. He also claims that the Bitcoin will have an important place in the future on the stock markets.
In the UK, James HOWELLS, a British computer scientist, searches a computer dump in the Newport area of Wales to try to find the hard drive of his computer that he recently threw away. A hard drive that contains the data needed to recover thousands of bitcoins acquired in 2009, a virtual currency used on the web, and whose current value of its 7500 bitcoins would amount to more than 5 million euros.