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Welcome back to the Breakdown.

It is Tuesday, February 25th, and today we are going to focus our conversation on answering

why the crypto community seems so interested in the coronavirus.

I did a poll yesterday that more than 1,500 people responded to that I think says a lot

about why you're seeing such an inordinate amount of conversation about a public health issue

in a theoretically financially technology-minded community. But first, I did want to run through

just a few follow-ups to stories we've been following for the last few weeks. So let's kick it off

with that and then we'll get into our main topic. A few weeks ago, I had Tyrone Ross on the show.

Now, Tyrone is a financial advisor who's heavily involved with making sure that crypto makes it

to mainstream audiences, right? Make sure that it gets to the people who need it the most. And when I

asked him what he thought the most significant company in the crypto space was going to be,

he said, bar none, no question, not even close. It was cash app. And his reasoning was that

basically cash app is the way that people are interacting, regular people are interacting

with money in a way that is totally different than other applications, right? And so you might

look at a Binance or a Coinbase and say that's really important to the crypto community,

but the vast majority of people in his estimation who are going to come into this space over

the next couple years are going to be through

apps like Cash App and specifically Cash App. But Cash App, however, isn't the only company

in that space who is trying to disrupt banks through a mobile first experience. Another big

competitor in that area is Revolut. Revolut offers both traditional stock buying as well as cryptocurrency buying and just

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