Bitcoin

A government public information officer and a medical device salesman may not sound like the most obvious pair to host the region’s first Bitcoin conference. But their interest in the controversial cryptocurrency is symbolic of its evolution from a little understood hobby of software developers and gamers to headline-grabbing darling of the world’s most influential venture capitalists (despite some very high-profile, law-breaking mishaps). The mission of organizers Faruk Okcetin and Dan Spuller of newly-created Coinstate Ventures is to take Bitcoin mainstream and to provide a venue for people from across the Southeast to learn about the digital currency, ask...