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Broad Matters Season 1 Episode 4 - Cryptocurrency

Thursday, February 15, 2018
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The Spartan Bizcast (aka Broad Matters) returns in 2018 to pull back the veil on cryptocurrency. Even though cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have been recently making headlines, the details of how cryptocurrencies work are an elaborate mystery to the average consumer. In this episode, hosts Don Conlon and Caroline Brooks talk with the Broad College’s A.J. Pasant Endowed Chair of Finance Naveen Khanna and ask: “Should we being buying Bitcoins”?

Want to learn more? Check out these references:

“Bitcoin, rival cryptocurrencies plunge on crackdown fears” by Reuters News, News Article, January 2018

“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline, Paperback, 2012

“Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto, PDF, October 2008

“Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, 2nd Edition Paperback/Kindle, 2017

“The Ceremony” by Radiolab. Podcast. Reported by Molly Webster. July 2017

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