🎧 Cryptocurrency
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If you feel confused and left behind by cryptocurrency then this is for you. We're taking you on a journey through the strange history of cryptocurrency. Why and how does it exist?
It turns out this history isn’t so much about clever codes as good old-fashioned politics.
Our guide is Finn Brunton, author of Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.
Get ready for a rip-roaring tale of Bletchley Park codebreakers, the wild west early days of the internet, dystopian visions of the future, and a man with a fortune buried somewhere in a rubbish dump in Wales.
The episode was produced by Freddy Chick.
The editor was Thomas Ntinas.
The senior producer is Charlotte Long
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