The T&T Com­put­er So­ci­ety (TTCS) in­vites any­one who wants to learn more about bit­coin and 'vir­tu­al-cur­ren­cies' to a tech meet­ing on Sat­ur­day at UWI open cam­pus, Gor­don Street, St Au­gus­tine from 3 pm to 5 pm.Top­ics to be dis­cussed in­clude De­cen­tralised cur­ren­cies in T&T: Ra­tio­nale and Out­look, to be pre­sent­ed by Richard Jo­bity, and Dig­i­tal Cur­ren­cies: Chal­lenge or So­lu­tion, pre­sent­ed by Shi­va Bisses­sar.

Jo­bity is an econ­o­mist with more than 20 years ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing 11 years at a ma­jor fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion. His cur­rent in­ter­ests in­clude tech­nol­o­gy and com­pet­i­tive in­tel­li­gence in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries.Bises­sar, an ICT prac­ti­tion­er, cur­rent­ly runs a small con­sul­tan­cy firm spe­cial­is­ing in pro­vi­sion of tech­ni­cal ad­vi­so­ry on clients' ef­forts in de­vel­op­ing ICT and In­for­ma­tion Se­cu­ri­ty poli­cies, reg­u­la­tions and gov­er­nance strate­gies.