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welcome to the nerd wallet smart money podcast where we answer your personal finance questions and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.

I'm Liz Weston. And I'm Sean Piles. On this episode, Liz and I are talking about debt and debt forgiveness. First, though, an hour this week in your money segment, Liz and I are talking about a new interest of mine, cryptocurrency.

So how did you get involved in this, Sean?

I have to admit it was a little bit spontaneous.

I was just scrolling through Twitter the other day, as one does, checking in on the status

of our republic, doing a little bit of doom scrolling, checking out Dionne Warwick's Twitter

account, which I will tell you is the

antidote to doom scrolling. And I saw that Dogecoin was trending. And this is something I've

been kind of curious about for a while. So I wanted to check on it, see why it was trending on Twitter.

And the big news. Okay. What in the world is Dogecoin? Okay, Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency

that effectively started as a joke. For those who aren't familiar, there is this meme that

goes back, I want to say almost a decade at this point, of a Shiba Inu, and it is called Doge.

It is the Doge dog. And it's just a meme that's circulated for a long time. And so the

creators of Dogecoin wanted to make a cryptocurrency that was a joke, kind of a satire on the whole

financial industry. And for that, I found it really appealing. Anything that takes away a little bit of

power from the way that money rules our lives,

I'm all about. So I thought it was interesting. And when I was looking through the trend,

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