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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Jonathan Rose is the CEO of Block Trust IRA and he's here with me to unravel the mysteries

of retirement investing, particularly investing in Bitcoin and

crypto. Jonathan, thanks for joining me. I think for a lot of people, the whole crypto world

is a little bit of a mystery. I mean, they know that you've got Bitcoin, it's digital currency. People are familiar

with using digital currency when they do PayPal and a lot of transactions that we do online.

But could you explain just briefly what is Bitcoin, what is crypto, and why is it important for people to think about investing in crypto?

Yeah, absolutely. First and foremost, thank you so much for having me on your show today,

of being a long-time follower of your work. So I appreciate being on here.

And you're right. You mentioned

crypto and some people gravitate towards it and then the other half questions and say,

I don't even understand it. Myself personally, I for over 30 years. You can tell, you know,

I'm from London. I'm not from Kansas. And I grew up in

London and I worked for the London Metal Exchange. I worked for Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley,

some of the AAA rated banks. And back then I was actually trading commodities. But back in the, gosh,

the early mid-90s, things were very different back then.

You know, I've seen technology change, investments change.

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