http://www.paymentssource.com/news/how-bitcoin-is-blossoming-in-germany-3015408-1.html"In our neighborhood there are a few dozens of bitcoin-accepting businesses by now and a bitcoin-based economic cycle starts to develop," says Joerg Platzer, owner of Room77 and principal of the Crypto Economics Consulting Group in Berlin. "I do not have to change the bitcoins we take in back into euro. I can pay my beer supplier, my printer and other goods and services with it already. We call it our 'alternative local currency with global reach.'"
"[German regulators] are trying to put some measure of control around it, rather than stymie it or erect barriers to try and discourage it"
