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I'm Rob Cox, the Zurich-based editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary arm of Reuters News. This week, we traveled to El Salvador to discuss the Central American

country's decision to make Bitcoin an official currency. Okay, we didn't actually go to

El Salvador, but Richard Beals in New York and Gina Chan and Washington discussed this unusual

decision south of the border. They also talk more broadly about how

regulators and policymakers are scrambling to keep up with new developments in the cryptocurrency

markets. After that, Karen Kwok in London talks about Swiss running shoemaker-on's upcoming

initial public offering. The company benefits from a Swiss brand premium, but curiously chose New York,

not Zurich to go public, and relegated the two big Swiss banks, credits Suisse and UBS

to the side courts in the deal with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley playing center

court. Give a listen. Greetings, Richard and Gina. You guys this week wrote a couple of interesting stories about, well, about cryptocurrencies. Let's start with El Primo, which is an idea that El Salvador is going to be adopting Bitcoin as a coin of the realm. You wrote about this, Richard. Interesting concept, you say, but like

totally flawed to be using Bitcoin. Give us a idea. It's the first country to give it a try,

to say, you know, El Salvador already uses the dollar rather than any other currency. And the

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