The Rule Breakers Guide to Cryptocurrencies: Why Bitcoin and Blockchain Are Transformative

On this week's Rule Breakers podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner takes on a topic that he's never hit before, but that plenty of his listeners want to hear about from him: cryptocurrencies. To answer their questions about bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain technology, and more, he's enlisted the help of Fool analyst Aaron Bush.

In this segment, they discuss the three biggest reasons that blockchain changes everything: its power to create vast decentralized networks of people, its ability to transform information into value, and the way it makes open protocols work so much better. There's a lot to unpack there -- along with a sidetrack into what exactly a cryptocurrency miner is -- so let's get to it.

A full transcript follows the video.

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