You Can Now Pay for Your Rocket Trip to Space Using Fake Money

Sir Richard Branson announced Friday that Virgin Galactic, his commercial space flight venture, will accept the cyber currency bitcoin as payment for future rocket travel. Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and an early bitcoin investor, teased the idea in a tweet before elaborating in a blog post and appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (below) via Skype from Necker Island, his private Caribbean enclave. Labeling the digital payment option “a new exciting currency,” he said Virgin Gala...