Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough as I always am.

I didn't cover it this week, but you might have noticed that this week

Bitcoin did indeed cross that magical 10,000 a coin mark in fact it got to 13,000

only to flash crash back down again to almost that $10,000 mark.

But look, seemingly the crypto spring is upon us and I was just curious as to why.

So I asked Aaron Lamer, co-host of the only crypto podcast I listened to, Coin Talk, to come on so we could find

out what is behind this rally.

TLDR, it's a little bit market cycles,

and maybe a lot bit Facebook Libra.

Please enjoy.

Actually, you know what we need to do is what is the Bitcoin price index?

Oh, okay, good. I, I'm not sure. I think it's about...

Well, there's a robot in the telegram room.

It's, okay, right now.

8 a.m. it was 11,850.

Okay, listen, consider us recording.

So it is 1, a. Eastern time.

The Bitcoin price index is 11,807.

And actually I do need to frame it because I haven't been talking about this all week.

I think I did say on last weekend's bonus episode that it was approaching 10,000 but okay

So to sum up the week

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