Evolving Money: Building Bridges with Bitcoin (Sponsored Content)

Evolving Money: Building Bridges with Bitcoin (Sponsored Content)

Author: Bloomberg and iHeartPodcasts January 26, 2025 Duration: 19:05

Just as mobile banking revolutionized our relationship with our money and led to a plethora of new tools for management and investing, the proliferation of crypto and blockchain technologies have opened up all manner of new investment opportunities that go far beyond what early Bitcoin adopters could’ve imagined.

This episode is sponsored by Coinbase.

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