I’ve been avoiding talking about crypto currencies for most of this podcast series. It’s difficult for me to find a way of explaining them without going down the rabbit holes of block chain and distributed ledgers, but today I thought we could have a go with Nathan Halliday from Zipmex.

"I started started dabbling in crypto probably six months before coming on board and actually started my journey in stocks and was was using superhero which had come into the market and looking at some tech stocks and that led me to cryptocurrency. And I've got some very good friends who were heavily involved in it, and I didn't really understand it, and, you know, for me, as I said, investing in anything I want to understand what I'm investing in. So yeah, I sort of started to really dive into it, which when it makes sort of opportunity came up. I thought it was a great fit and so for me, really what I've been learning about is the underlying tech, you know and and how blockchain effectively works and you know the decentralized Ledger's effectively is creating a new form of trust. So, by having a network effect across, you know, millions of computers around the world. the security of these registered transactions is incredible. So for me, understanding the basis of what the technology, it was was really important."

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