34. Bitcoin -- It's Like Regular Money, But It Wears JNCOs!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about cryptocurrency, JNCO jeans, and our lord and savior Sandra Bullock! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/cryptography https://tinyurl.com/msk2c8 https://tinyurl.com/yc2ra7rx https://tinyurl.com/5n6cexs3 https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/the-history-of-bitcoin https://tinyurl.com/2p8djaad https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shitcoin.asp https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-usa/ https://tinyurl.com/2p94pjtu https://tinyurl.com/szd5pauk https://tinyurl.com/4wfh6wr6 https://tinyurl.com/3rpk76a8 https://fortunly.com/statistics/cryptocurrency-statistics/#gref https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/ https://youngandtheinvested.com/cryptocurrency-statistics/ https://tinyurl.com/3bstddfv https://tinyurl.com/yckz6fhx https://tinyurl.com/bdzzheyk https://tinyurl.com/ydr5kb7b https://tinyurl.com/hzkd6x52 https://www.cointelligence.com/content/impact-media-cryptocurrencies/ https://tinyurl.com/26hnm2v7 https://tinyurl.com/h68ku5pw https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/03/climate/bitcoin-carbon-footprint-electricity.html https://tinyurl.com/4tnez4ty https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/26/investing/bitcoin-mining-renewable-energy/index.html https://mindseteco.co/environmental-impact-of-cryptocurrency/ https://tinyurl.com/bddf4wtz https://tinyurl.com/28k2f93w https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-cryptocurrency

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:28.4	All right, Kenna, today, the question I have for you. It's an easy one. Do you own any cryptocurrency?
0:36.9	I do.
0:37.9	Okay, all right.
0:38.9	Do you remember, like, why you first bought it?
0:42.3	Like, what was going on in your life and why you were like,
0:44.4	huh, maybe I should buy cryptocurrency?
0:47.2	I had an ex-boyfriend who got really into it, and he made a ton of money right that sounds about like me but not like
0:59.1	someone I knew I just I think I bought cryptocurrency for the first time when it peaked up to
1:04.9	$8,000 oh yeah now it's like Bitcoin was $8,000 now Bitcoin is worth so much more than that
1:10.8	but I saw everybody on the internet making memes about it and everyone Yeah, now it's like Bitcoin was $8,000. Now Bitcoin is worth so much more than that.
1:15.2	But I saw everybody on the internet making memes about it and everyone was like,
1:15.9	ah, Bitcoin.
1:18.2	And I was like, oh, I got my Bitcoin.
1:24.4	And then I bought Bitcoin for like $8,000, but I only bought like $20 of it or something.
1:30.0	So it wasn't worth that much. And then just here and there where I could I've been like oh I'll buy some crypto it's probably smart to rich people buy crypto all these people
1:35.9	get rich off crypto yeah I've been kind of buying it just so I because I want to save and I just don't
1:42.6	see myself spending it.
1:45.4	Yeah, exactly.
1:46.7	It's like, well, it's in there now.
1:48.3	It just, it just lives in there.
1:51.6	And yeah, because I'm just like, ah, it's a pain to get it out.
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