Hello, current affairs listeners. This is Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson. We're going to get to the

episode in a moment, but I just wanted to announce beforehand that you might all be interested in

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Thanks very much. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. My guest today is

Stephen Deal. He is a software engineer based in London. He is the co-author of the book, Popping the Crypto Bubble.

His writings can be found at his website, stephen deal.com.

And we bring him on today because Stephen Deal is also, in some ways, a profit.

Stephen, hello, welcome to current affairs.

Nice to talk to you.

Hi, Nathan.

Lovely to be here today.

Okay, so you've been writing about cryptocurrency for a while,

and I want to just read the pretty emphatic opening

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