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Back on June 11th, Jason Hall and I sat down once again with Jacob Goldstein,

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Yeah, just a big change. How is the role of cryptocurrency changed in the past month with the emergence of

Bitcoin on company balance sheets or Doge coin

maybe increasingly on company balance sheets.

What do you make of this?

I mean, it's mysterious ultimately to me still, I think, right?

Like, if I look at that...

You're not the only one.

Right, like, you like, the Tesla thing is kind of perfect, right? It's like, we're gonna buy a bunch of

Bitcoin. You can use Bitcoin to buy Tesla's. Oh, wait, actually, Bitcoin's bad for the environment,

and Tesla's supposed to be good for the environment so you can't use it to buy

Tesla's but we're gonna keep the Bitcoin anyways. It's like what's the what's the

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