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Bitcoin’s George Washington: Amherst’s Gavin Andresen

If George Washington is the face on our American coins, Amherst’s Gavin Andresen is the face on the hottest cryptocurrency going-Bitcoin. So how was the banker of Bitcoin hiding in plain site in Amherst for so long and is the Bitcoin bubble over the last week about to burst? Listen to his conversation with Monte.

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