How Bitcoin Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 2008 Bitcoin, the world's first decentralized, anarchistic all-digital currency, was introduced to the world. Its value has risen, fallen and risen again and speculators, techies, libertarians and economists alike are taking it seriously.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House of Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
0:48.4	The Tech Edition which we don't dive into tech too much because that's...
0:54.1	This is Jay Strick and Lauren's territory.
0:58.6	Yeah. And frankly we're a little scared of him.
1:00.8	Our cohorts at Tech Stuff, they do a great job.
1:03.2	Sure.
1:04.2	But we've gotten so many requests for this topic that we were like, you know, we got to
1:08.5	have satisfied the Stuff You Should Know fans.
1:11.2	We don't want them showing up with torches led by Mothabartender at our door.
1:15.7	Exactly.
1:16.7	You know this might be the most requested of all time possibly.
1:21.7	Oh you think?
1:23.0	I think it might be.
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