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Summary:

A report on Bitcoin, the virtual currency created in the 2000s that has seen massive fluctuations in value over the years, but whose success has led to the growth of the cryptocurrency industry. Bitcoin was created by a still unknown student who believed in creating a peer-to-peer network over which money could be exchanged internationally. Without the need for a big bank or money transfer company, this had the potential to revolutionize the way money changes hands worldwide. Some of Bitcoin's earliest investors tell their stories of a meteoric rise and subsequent crash as they rode the Bitcoin rollercoaster. Includes interviews with Charlie Shrem, founder of BitInstant; Neha Narula, director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab; Laszlo Hanyecz, who made what is believed to be the first real-world transaction involving cryptocurrency; Marco Streng, the CEO of Genesis Mining; and Lael Brainard, one of the governors of the Federal Reserve.

Contributors:

Cooper, Anderson , onscreen presenter, interviewer

Salomon, Evie , producer

Court, Andy , producer

CBS News , publisher, production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Related Works:

In series: 60 minutes (Television program)

Alternate Titles:

Sixty minutes
Bitcoin's wild ride

Subjects:

Bitcoin

Digital currency — United States

Businesspeople — United States — Interviews

Digital currency

Businesspeople

United States

Genres:

Interviews

Television news programs

Online media

Internet videos

Performers:

Reporter, Anderson Cooper.

General Notes:

Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally broadcast on May 19, 2019.
Description based on: Title from title screen (viewed March 08, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (14 min.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1429692369

Other Control Numbers:

99709524000971 (source: VaAlASP)
5521997 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP5521997/avon