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BITCOIN. ETHEREUM. DOGECOIN. Blockchain. Mining. Exchanges.
Never mind how tough it is to wrap your head around the terms associated with cryptocurrency, it can be harder to decipher what it actually is to begin with.
However, it doesn’t require in-depth knowledge to grasp that some people have made an awful lot of money from the skyrocketing prices of certain coins.
Cryptocurrencies are grabbing international headlines in a way they haven’t for some time – but the stories go beyond the eyewatering profits.
To explain more, we’re joined on this week’s episode of The Explainer by Ian Curran, The Journal’s business reporter and author of the Morning Memo newsletter, and Nick Charalambous, managing director of Cork-based Alpha Wealth.
We cover some of the basics of cryptocurrency, look at what has driven recent price increases (and sudden price declines), examine why it’s considered a risky investment, issues with electricity usage, and hear how it could be regulated in future.
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/why-are-you-hearing-so-much-about-cryptocurrency/s-dpClAMbL381
This episode was put together by presenter Sinéad O’Carroll, producers Aoife Barry and Nicky Ryan. Thank you to Céimin Burke for his help with this week’s episode.
Best of luck trying to take it off them. Vicious little things.
Such a beautiful noble creature.
Well, once superbugs evolve to resist these peptides, then I’d imagine the world is truly scuppered.
Too bad the Tasmanian Tiger (another marsupial) is extinct since the 1930s.
The tasmanian devil’s are predisposed to an aggressive cancer. The tumours grow around their necks and eventually the animal suffers from malnutrition then eventually death by suffocation if the malnutrition doesn’t kill them first. Some of the pictures of are truly horrific. I wonder what side effects will come from these new antibiotics that will ‘save’ the lives of millions.
Inferno
The devil is in the detail!!!
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