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Arras Lives on Bitcoin for a Week and Proves Bitcoin Is Gaining Acceptance

• https://news.bitcoin.com, C. Edward Kelso

Amelie Arras, Director of Marketing at the United Kingdom's (UK) Adstra Marketing, logged 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) over two countries and five states, using only bitcoin to survive, winning the annual Money20/20 Payments Race competition.

She competed against four other contestants, including those using payments in gold, the very European chip-and-pin card method, contactless (near-field communication system usually used by smartphone), and cash (mostly one-dollar bills).

Money20/20 is an yearly conference, very well attended, and, when held in the United States, happens late October in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's a who-is-who of the payments industry and related companies. The 2017 version managed to generate headlines from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak touting bitcoin over gold, to the Tezos fellows explaining their initial coin offering (ICO) drama, and Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne's eye-popping ICO announcement of his own.

Cryptocurrencies are clearly beginning to be noticed by the industry at large.


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