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The Isle of Man is essentially a rock in the middle of the Irish Sea. Home to eighty five thousand people and known if at all for a motorcycle race. It's in many ways a land out of time a land of horse drawn trams and Victorian steam trains but increasingly it's also on the leading edge of financial technology in particular Bitcoin and other crypto currencies and the technologies that underpin them so we're here at London City Airport waiting to get our flight to the Isle of Man where we're going to see how they're trying to attract as many bitcoin related businesses as possible. And we're gong to try as much as possible to use bitcoin to pay for things. But we'll see how that goes . He said he would take it back to me. Well thank you so much for coming to pick me up. Always nice have you here. So fixer for this jury I'd like to pay by bitcoin which I have here on my digital wallet. So let's see how this goes. First attempting this RTS others where it's just scanning I think Chinese one. Yeah we'll do it again. Yeah. Not very easy to use. I mean if you have to put it in yourself I'll download the coin going or one. I'll do that and I'll give you a ring. I'm sorry about that. Very fast anyway . I wasn't expecting that but I've never used the the app before . Obviously it's not as intuitive as I thought it would or hoped it would be. I can get I can get you a coffee. Oh. What would you like to get some kind of share. And can I pay for that using bitcoin. I can. All right great. Now you don't have an internet connection. Well that's a problem I find. Okay. I'll do that . All right. One second. Trying There we go. That's great. All right. We've been on the Isle of Man for us two days and now it's time to check out the hotel here. The last day and so we're going to go see if we can pay the hotel bill by bitcoin . Go for that one. No I just think you know pick so few places on the island that we've seen actually take it so far. I sort of doubt the hotel will. But we'll see. They're checking out it's a room one of nine I'm just curious is it is it possible to pay by bitcoin you don't accept bitcoin . I do. Do you take American Express. Okay great. Yes that's correct .