Canvas8 presents an exclusive adaptation from author and hacker Josh Klein’s upcoming bookReputation Economics, which explores how digitisation is destroying the limitations of the current financial system.

Xapo has released a debit card directly linked to an online Bitcoin wallet. It works just like an ordinary card, allowing people to make both online and offline payments. By making Bitcoin more tangible, will this hold the key to mass adoption of Bitcoin accounts?

David Birch is one of the foremost experts on digital money issues. We spoke with him after his talk at Lift12 on the long future of finance in an interview which touches on Bitcoin, Facebook Credits and banking with your supermarket.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that works on a P2P basis. It is perhaps the most significant of an emerging set of alternative currencies which are set to change the way people transact and value goods and services, both online and off.