{"id":4558,"date":"2014-04-19T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T11:38:27","slug":"sir-richard-branson-bitcoin-pioneer-global-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/sir-richard-branson-bitcoin-pioneer-global-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Richard Branson: Bitcoin “The Pioneer of a Global Currency”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Business magnate Sir Richard Branson’s no stranger to the topic of bitcoin and digital currency.<\/p>\n
In November of last year, Branson announced that his latest and greatest venture, Virgin Galactic<\/a>, would be accepting bitcoin for short flights to space.<\/p>\n In the April issue of Delta’s SKY Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Branson spoke about a number of topics, of which include (yes, you guessed it) bitcoin.<\/p>\n “It was a genius who set [Bitcoin] up,” he told the magazine.<\/p>\n But despite the genius behind bitcoin, Branson says there’s a number of flaws with it — chiefly, its transparency. Specifically, the fact that most people don’t know\u00a0who<\/em>\u00a0Satoshi Nakamoto — the creator — is.<\/p>\n “It may not be the perfect global currency of the future yet, but it\u2019s the pioneer of a global currency.”<\/p>\n Mr. Branson instead feels that a successful means of digital payments could come from someone well known like Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n Dorsey, of course, now runs Square<\/a>, a company that seeks to make accepting credit\/debit cards simple.<\/p>\n “He\u2019s the kind that\u2019s more likely to come up with the currency of the future that would be completely transparent,” he said, “Maybe using the Virgin Money brand.”<\/p>\n Branson noted in late January that “six or seven” individuals had purchased a Virgin Galactic flight using bitcoin, including a <\/span>stewardess from Hawaii<\/a>. Each flight is priced at about $250,000, or about 500 BTC at the current exchange rate.<\/span><\/p>\n