LONDON (Reuters) – London, center of the $5-trillion-a-day global currency market, now wants to be home to a controversial upstart – bitcoin.
British authorities have come out in support of digital currencies in the name of promoting financial innovation, while proposing that regulations should be drawn up to prevent their use in crime.
But it is technophiles who are leading the drive to make London a real-world hub for trade in web-based "cryptocurrencies", of which bitcoin […]