SecondMarket's venture into bitcoin represents the latest effort to bring the virtual currency into the mainstream.
They had to convert the currency into something else, or at least refinance it.
Foreign visitors bring much-needed hard currency into the poor south Asian nation.
She persuaded donors to re-open the aid taps, bringing much-needed foreign currency into the country.
How about a redenomination there to transform the OECD's lightest currency into its most confusing one won to one euro?
It disrupted the Istanbul stock market, scared away foreign investors and sent the Turkish currency into a free fall.
Icelanders say that it is now nearly impossible to get foreign currency into or out of the country.
- but I now wonder if there is a macabre significance: with war approaching were people rapidly converting currency into gold?
Concerns about the government's ability to support the banking sector have put the currency into a tailspin.
But the act of converting each currency into, for example, U.S. dollars could lead to distortions, because official exchange rates reflect official policies and not existing realities.
To fuel a dynamic money economy and to meet the demand created by expanded state finance, he also pumped more currency into the economy.
