An Interview with Australia’s Bitcoin Pioneer Jason Williams

An Interview with Australia’s Bitcoin Pioneer Jason Williams

Despite only being introduced to cryptocurrencies in 2010, he has since founded the Bitcoin Association of Australia and a startup company, BitPOS, as well as organizing meetings for Bitcoin professionals in Sydney through his organization BitcoinSYD. Jason has an exciting future planned and CoinTelegraph caught up with him to discuss his plans as Australia warms up to Bitcoin. JW: I agree that Australia is late to developing Bitcoin infrastructure, however it’s a misnomer the first ATM has been installed just this month. In December last year I took delivery of the first Lamassu ATM in....


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