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What is cryptocurrency and can it eliminate poverty worldwide?

What is cryptocurrency and can it eliminate poverty worldwide?

Update: 2022-02-04

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Everything is going digital. Our relationships, our jobs, our celebrations, even our assets.

You have probably heard of cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, or maybe NFTs – but do you really know what it is?

On this week’s “Connect the Dots” podcast, host Lynda Lopez spoke with award winning bilingual financial expert Jully Alma Taveras and financial planner Ric Edelman, to look at the history of crypto and how this digital currency may shape the future of money.

Producer/writers: Dempsey Pillott, Rabia Gursoy and Lynda Lopez (WCBS 880); mixed and mastered by: Sydney Fishman and Mallory Somera (KCBS Radio)

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What is cryptocurrency and can it eliminate poverty worldwide?

What is cryptocurrency and can it eliminate poverty worldwide?