Cryptocurrency is a new and trending phenomena, and it just may be the future. There is a lot of misunderstanding about it. Including on the part of your host. Enter Geoff Robertson, a pioneer in studying the impacts of cryptocurrency. He teaches a Masters' degree course on it at the University of Maryland. We discuss the origins of cryptocurrency, the basic structure of the block chain, and the rather egalitarian aspirations embedded within. We discuss the investment questions and the misunderstandings about its usefulness in crime or tax evasion.
