Bitcoin is digital cash on a hard drive · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave explains Bitcoin as autonomous digital money and then uses the reported misuse of gaming anti-cheat software to show that the new system can still be exploited. The brothers imagine a Bitcoin wallet stranded on a failed drive and arrive at the simpler analogy that, without a bank or central record, it behaves much like cash.
This excerpt runs from 1:40.642 to 8:36.734 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2013-05-04. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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