A discussion around Bitcoin and other Digital Currencies like Amazon Coins, Facebook Credits, Litecoin, Ripple,… as well as Open Source projects and Social Networks, Shops or Crowdfunding initiatives supporting them. Experts in the financial industry and IT plus vendors of Bitcoin and solutions around it will participate and discuss with the audience their experience with digital currencies and what they think the near future of these currencies could be. Widely accepted universal payment instruments, free from often cumbersome banking procedures and fees, or a “Wild West” style object of speculation and claim by sometimes shady characters and same gamblers that already caused a global financial crisis?