Hello everybody and welcome to the Minescape Podcast.

I'm your host, John Carroll.

And today we're talking about a subject that is near and dear to the hearts of most

everyone out there, money.

We all know what money is, right?

We use money.

We exchange it for goods and surfaces, as Homer Simpson once pointed out.

But we also get this feeling that the notion of money is in flux right now.

The notion of currency, the actual thing you give to somebody, which used to be dollar

bills, of course it's increasingly credit one way or the other.

And these days there's this talk of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and so forth.

Somehow the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never

be the same.

The question is, how is this new world going to look?

If you followed the Bitcoin situation at all, you know there's a bit of instability in

the system.

Bitcoin was supposed to be a way that people could use it as money to exchange for things

on the internet, but the actual value of Bitcoin has been fluctuating wildly.

If you were really, really good and bought it very, very cheaply early on, you could have

made an enormous amount of cash, good old American dollars if you would sold it at the

right time.

But now it's on its way back down.

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