Claim: The Cobden Centre was intending to organise a four-day digital currency exhibition in the European Parliament, claimed to have been the first of its kind in any Parliament in the world and would involve demonstrations of Bitcoin(the most well-known cryptocurrency invented in 2008) ATMs and other related technologies.
Evidence: The Cobden Centre was intending to organise a four-day exhibition in the European Parliament in November 2015 showcasing digital currencies to the MEPs. It claimed it was to have been the first of its kind in any Parliament in the world and would involve demonstrations of Bitcoin ATMs and other related technologies. Bitcoin (₿) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto and started in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software.