Cryptocurrency: The Future Of Investing Or A Scam?
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
To understand the arguments for and against investing in cryptocurrency, you have to get a bit technical. YouTuber, Dan Olson helps us understand these digital currencies, how they function, what you can buy with them and the ideology behind the tech.
We'll hear why Chinese dissident artist, Badiucao, thinks NFT's – non-fungible tokens – are the new frontier for political art. And critics explain why the crypto craze may be a market bubble and a scam.
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| 0:00.0 | History is filled with almost. |
| 0:04.6 | You've seen the ads. |
| 0:05.9 | Kyle Lowry has missed over 6,000 shots in his career. |
| 0:09.2 | Don't be like Kyle and miss your opportunity again. |
| 0:12.2 | And again, and again, and again, and again, |
| 0:16.4 | seriously, and again, and again. |
| 0:19.3 | They're selling FOMO, fear of missing out, |
| 0:22.3 | and also courage and foresight. |
| 0:25.2 | But if you want to make history, |
| 0:26.8 | you got to call your own shots. |
| 0:28.6 | And they're also warning you against being a coward or just lame. |
| 0:32.8 | It's FTX. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a safe and easy way to get into crypto. |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, I don't think so. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm never wrong about this stuff. |
| 0:40.2 | What they're actually selling is cryptocurrency. |
| 0:43.2 | And since many of these ads ran during the Super Bowl, |
| 0:46.1 | this pushed a new frontier of investing |
| 0:48.3 | in front of a mainstream audience of 100 million viewers. |
| 0:52.3 | It might be working. |
| 0:53.6 | And at the very least, it's made a lot of people curious. |
| 0:57.0 | The cryptocurrency exchange site Coinbase reportedly |
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