# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Bitcoin as digital currency

1 Faculty News April 26, 2013 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](http://www.3news.co.nz/Is-Bitcoin-the-currency-of-the-future/tabid/421/articleID/295666/Default.aspx) -- "'I think that's part of why people are finding Bitcoin attractive, that it's really the first widespread, completely anonymous, form of digital currency,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University."

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