“Tight Regulation within Bitcoin Will Stifle Innovation” - Hugh Halford-Thompson, QuickBitcoin
On an unusually warm London evening I attended my first Bitcoin meeting at the Vape Lab, site of Cointrader.net’s London Bitcoin ATM. There I met Hugh Halford-Thompson, who hosts the weekly Bitcoin meet up. Hugh is the Co-Founder of QuickBitcoin, which allows people in the UK to trade Bitcoin quickly and easily as well as head of UK Operations at the cointrader.net exchange. CoinTelegraph: What were your first impressions of Bitcoin and what drew you to it? It was clear from talking with Hugh that the large London Borough of Hackney is becoming a Bitcoin utopia. Hugh Halford-Thompson: When....
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