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Tracey, remember the episode we did a few weeks ago with David Schum?

I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy, remember the episode we did a few weeks ago with David Schum?

I certainly do.

That was a great episode.

Yeah, I love that episode and in part because, you know, I feel like of all this,

you know, talk about Bitcoin and

cryptocurrencies these days and really over the last couple of years,

while a lot of the conversation is very forward-looking,

people are trying to figure out

where it's going to go next, what the technology could be used for, how big things could get.

I find it very fruitful to actually look backwards, and before even figuring out where it's going to go next trying to think

about where it came from and some of the problems that the early people involved in the space

were trying to solve.

Oh absolutely and I think whenever you're talking involved in this space we're trying to solve? Oh, absolutely.

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