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The Road to Now

#245 Cryptocurrency: A Brief History w/ David Hollerith

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8628 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When Bitcoin launched in January 2009, few people took it seriously and even fewer had the means to mine, buy or spend it. By the end of 2021, the Pew Research Center reported that 16% of Americans had held cryptocurrency and 86% had heard of it. Despite all of this, many of us remain perplexed by the topic, so Ben and Bob invited Yahoo! Finance's David Hollerith to join us for a conversation about the origins and potential of crypto. We hope this helps!

David Hollerith is a senior reporter at Yahoo! Finance who covers cryptocurrency. To keep up on his reporting, make sure to follow him on twitter at @DsHollers. You can check out his suggested reading on the topic at the episode page on our website.

If you enjoy this episode, check out #192 The History of Financial Bubbles w/ William Quinn.

This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:34.9

Ben, you got your cricket shirts.

0:37.3

You've had time to wear them. What do you think? Bob, I love these shirts. Bob, it's hot outside. I sweat like crazy. I overheat. And so a lot of times what I do is I wear like a nice polo shirt to work. You know, like a nice collared shirt. But they're all the ones I've got before,

1:32.6

they're kind of rough, you know, so you wear an undershirt with them, which just kind of makes it hotter. I can wear these shirts with no undershirt. They're cool, Bob. They look good. That's that's the 100% Pima Cotton. It's amazing. Like it's so soft. And it just the heat, It feels, I used to say about linen pants, it feels like you're not wearing pants. It just feels like your legs are in the shade. This is the first shirt that I've worn that feels like this. And it looks good, man. They've got different styles. Like, I never even imagine that you could make like a standard polo shirt look so different. Right. I love these collars. I love my favorites, the Slim Fit Player's shirt. The range polos are great. You got to go on the cricket website. It's cricket shirts. That's C-R-I-Q-U-E-T-Sirts.com.

1:41.3

Check out everything they have. Designed in Austin, Texas. I love this company.

1:47.0

I love what they're doing. They've reinvented the polo shirt. Ben, like you said, teaching,

1:51.7

you could wear a sports coat over these things. Yes. And even better, I could wear nothing

1:56.0

over these things except for this shirt. And it looks good. And like with with a good pair like a good nice pair of jeans

2:01.6

and a good pair of dress shoes and like I feel like I'm getting away with something wearing this to work.

2:07.0

You know what I'm saying? Like how am I getting to wear this to work? I wear them to work all the time.

2:11.9

Oh yeah. On stage. You were wearing these shirts before they sponsors. That's the amazing thing.

2:17.0

So guys, I can't tell you

2:18.1

enough. My recommendation would be get a size if you're on the on the cusp of two different sizes.

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