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  • 7/7/2025
Cryptocurrency has been on the rise for years. Now, it's a hot financial product touted as the currency of the future. B | dG1fa1pNOWxmdVRSSUk
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00:00The hype about cryptocurrency is everywhere, promising to liberate us from big banks and
00:12big tech, daring us to invest and take control.
00:18Fortune favours the brain.
00:23It is the ultimate chasing the dream.
00:26It is the ultimate embracing of celebrity.
00:28What do you think?
00:30Are you in?
00:31You know what?
00:32You're in.
00:33It's the ultimate embracing of ego, all wrapped up in financial product.
00:37And financial product in quotes.
00:40That is powerful.
00:43Despite wild booms and crashes, proponents are adamant that cryptocurrency and the tech
00:49it's built on are the wave of the future.
00:53With these technologies, we don't need to rely on large corporations.
00:58We have exponential innovation and development.
01:04From payments to gaming to financial infrastructure to lending, the sky's the limit.
01:10To critics, it's a form of gambling that exploits the naive and vulnerable.
01:16Cryptocurrency has no real value aside from the shared delusion that it's worth something.
01:24I believe it's one big Ponzi scheme.
01:26Cryptomania.
01:27Is it a fad, a fraud or the future?
01:30Digital currencies and the tech they're built on are being hailed as a revolution that will
01:35transform the internet and society.
01:38But amid the hype, there's been an explosion in crime and fresh proof that cryptocurrencies
01:43are highly volatile investments.
01:46We talk to true believers and a critic sounding a clarion call.
01:51Warning, if we don't deal with the dangers now, it'll be too late.
02:11Available now on Video On Demand.

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