Allen Jacobs - Bitcoin and the Future of Cryptocurrency

01/15/18 • 18 min

On this episode of the Thinkset podcast, host Eddie Newland speaks with Managing Director Dr. Allen Jacobs about rise of cryptocurrency and his take away was from the year that brought Bitcoin into the pop culture zeitgeist. Dr. Jacobs also discusses the continuing evolution of cryptocurrency, the difficulty in valuing different coins, the possibility of future regulation and what potential businesses based on the asymmetric cryptography may look like.

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Elizabeth Arnold - Collecting Data to Evaluate Employee Status

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