{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d4478d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Your World on the Blockchain","description":"<p>Brock Cusick joins us this week to talk about the decentralized blockchain technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run on, and about bitcoin itself: how does bitcoin work? What makes it valuable?</p><p>Why is there a finite amount of bitcoin? What happens when all of the bitcoin is mined? What’s next for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology? Will the government step in to regulate this? Can it?<br /><br /><strong>Show Notes and Further Reading</strong><br /><br />Back in 2014 we invited <a href=\"https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/is-bitcoin-future-money\">Timothy Lee on the show to give us a primer on bitcoin</a>. If you bought a single bitcoin the day this episode was released, that bitcoin is worth $6,734.66 more today (as of 11/9/17)!</p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}