“Joerg Platzer’s Bar ‘Room 77’ is dark and filled with smoke. It conveys the edgy ambiance and quiet cool found all over Berlin’s Kreutzberg neighbourhood. Bar 77 is now also a pilgrimage spot for Europeans looking to buy things without using cash or credit cards. Instead, they use a new kind of currency called Bitcoin, which only exists on the Internet. Bitcoin is not tied to any government or central bank and its backers say it has the potential to revolutionize the world. Platzer, whose bar was the first to accept Bitcoin, likes the anti-establishment ethos of this currency. ‘No president, no king in this world can stop a Bitcoin transaction,’ Platzer explains.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/991633/volatile-and-surging-bitcoin-popularity-on-the-rise/