http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03m3j72/Money_Box_Byebye_to_Bitcoin_Genderblender_insurance_Worlds_most_expensive_moneybox/Forget metal, paper and plastic is the future of currency virtual? Bitcoin is the oldest and best known of these virtual payment systems that are outside the banking system and free from state control or backing. That leaves the currency open to wild market fluctuations rising like a rocket then falling like a stick. So is virtuality the future of currency? Or is Bitcoin about to bite the dust? A Money Box listener and bitcoin enthusiast debates the pros and cons with a critic.
The guests were a man who invested a portion of his pension lump sum into bitcoin, and Irish economics lecturer Stephen Kinsella.