In the early days of Bitcoin’s infancy when the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto announced Bitcoin to the Cyperpunks world, and the likes of Hal Finney, Martti Malmi, and Gavin Andresen helped to work on improving its code, not many would have thought it possible to travel around the world using Bitcoins.
That was until programmer Felix Weis wanted to find out the answer. However, the only way to find out was to undertake the experiment himself, and that’s exactly what he did.
Originally from Luxembourg, but living in Berlin, Weis first discovered the digital currency in 2012 when his trust in the banks diminished after the financial crisis. Yet, despite people telling him back in 2014 that Bitcoin didn’t have a future, he was fascinated about the possibility of a currency that isn’t controlled by a government and that is immediately available to any country.
With the world trip experiment still in his mind, he converted all his savings to Bitcoin – securing them on his newly bought Trezor wallet from SatoshiLabs in Prague. Packing his bags, Weis began his adventure on January 12, 2015. Since successfully completing his adventure, he managed to visit 27 countries and 50 cities in 18 months using only the digital currency to get around. Naturally, he is of the opinion that Bitcoin is a global currency.
Speaking to CoinTelegraph, Felix Weis says: “I was able to use it in 27 countries in whatever form and, for me, that makes it a global currency.” Felix Weis Even though Weis visited countries such as Israel, Turkey, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Ireland, North America, the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, England, and Finland, he states that it wasn’t all plain sailing along the way.
When he was visiting Romania he explained that he was stranded for two days with […]
