A Bitcoin Globetrotter Covers 27 Countries: How He Did It, What He Learned

A Bitcoin Globetrotter Covers 27 Countries: How He Did It, What He Learned

Felix Weis, a Berlin programmer, visited 27 countries and 50 cities in the past 18 months only spending bitcoin. He related his 18-month story in Forbes to a reporter, Laura Shin. Weis wanted to prove that bitcoin was not dead, as many people were claiming at the end of 2014. He also believed that if bitcoin was, in fact, a world currency as advocates claimed, then someone should be able to travel the world only using bitcoin. He made it a point to use bitcoin whenever possible, and only to use cash by exchanging bitcoin for cash. He used LocalBitcoins.com to find people to exchange local....


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