London photographer Abby Scarlet has embarked on a six month challenge during which she will only accept work from clients willing to pay her in bitcoin.

Sitting in her colourful studio in a warehouse in North London, Scarlet – who's approximately two weeks into her bitcoin-only endeavour – opened up about her discovery of the digital currency and her personal quest to spread its adoption.

Bitcoin 'head-first'

"I was thrown into bitcoin head-first," said Scarlet.

Anecdotally, Scarlet explained how she shared a house in Brighton – a seaside hotspot in the UK – with a bitcoin miner and a bitcoin enthusiast last year.

"He [the bitcoin miner] had all these machines and I didn't know what they were. I actually turned them off when I got home once because they were making so much noise. He came in and started yelling, asking what I was doing. I didn't realise he was actually mining digital currency."