Tech Industry Leaders Meet To Discuss Future Of Bitcoin

The event called "The B Word" gave people like Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey a chance to explain how cryptocurrency works and what the future looks like.

Technology pioneers Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey took part in an online discussion Wednesday to discuss the merits and the future of Bitcoin. The event, billed as "The B Word" offered a chance for the panel to explain to investors how the cryptocurrency works and why they feel it's important to the world today. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX said money is "fundamentally an information system" and Bitcoin functions as a candidate to "improve the quality of information with which we conduct the economy."