(
BitcoinExaminer) Virgin Galactic, the commercial space
flight venture created by the billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson,
is accepting Bitcoin: this means the new crypto-millionaires and space
aficionados can now
use their digital coins to pay for an exciting and unique trip. The news was
announced by Branson himself on CNBC’s show “Squawk Box”.
According to the entrepreneur, Virgin Galactic already accepted its first purchase made with this ”new exciting currency”,
Branson said. The lucky space traveler is a flight attendant from
Hawaii. Apparently, the woman made “quite a lot of money getting into
Bitcoin early on”, he told CNBC.
The client bought the trip with Bitcoin
and then Virgin Galactic converted the amount into US dollars,
specifically $250,000. “There’s a fixed price [and] we can actually pay
her money back, if she changes her mind about going to space in a few
months”.
After the interview,
Richard Branson tweeted two more Bitcoin-themed messages.
Actually, during the Skype talk with CNBC,
the entrepreneur revealed he was also an early Bitcoin investor
and is holding on for the long-term. “I have invested in some Bitcoins
myself and find it fascinating how a whole new global currency has been
created”,
he wrote on Virgin’s website. Brason even compared the virtual coin with his own business.
The entrepreneur also focuses regulation on Virgin’s website: “Bitcoins
aren’t yet formally recognized by governments as a currency, but with some regulation I hope that it will become more widely accepted.
A few years ago many people had doubts about whether Virgin Galactic
would ever get off the ground. Now we have gone supersonic, are a long
way along the testing process, and are looking forward to launching
commercial space travel”.
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