And in what form should it be used in the area of payment transactions? These questions will be addressed in module 2 of the workshop: “Possible business cases for payments". Payment transactions based on blockchain inevitably also raise the question of virtual currencies.
Bitcoin was created shortly after the outbreak of the financial crisis and was intended to serve as a countermodel to the prevailing financial system. At first, bitcoin fired many people’s imagination and led some to expect a revolution in the financial system.