Rule Breaker's Guide to Cryptocurrencies, Part 2: Will Governments Destroy or Use Them?

Rule Breaker's Guide to Cryptocurrencies, Part 2: Will Governments Destroy or Use Them?

In this Rule Breakers podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner recruited Fool analyst Aaron Bush to help him with Cryptocurrencies 101. Turns out that a fair number of his listeners wanted more. So this week -- with bitcoin trading at more than twice the level it was for the previous episode -- he brought Aaron back for a more advanced encore.

In this segment, they consider the way existing institutions and governments will react to -- and influence -- cryptocurrencies. Already, one nation is looking into creating its own. But whatever those traditional powers do, the course for bitcoin and its ilk is unlikely to be smooth.

A full transcript follows the video.

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