Editor in chief of Bloomberg Businessweek, joel webber. A lot of good stories this week. Joel i try. Carol and you succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another currency that you guys have been looking into. Joel part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. Right . It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where are my supposed to get into this . There is another that has caused a lot of attention recently, called ripple. So we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution. We talked to the Banking Community said, we dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . Even though there is a lot of enthu
Carol and you succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another that you guys have been looking into. Part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the proceeding of receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where am i supposed to get into this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution they say you dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . There is a lot of enthusiasm but theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a little bit because we know the Financial Community says we are new to di
Issue this week. I try. Carol and you succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another currency that you guys have been looking into. Part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the proceeding of receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where am i supposed to get into this . Another one that has caught a lot of attention recently is ripple, so we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution we talked to the Banking Community and they say they dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . There is a lot of enthusiasm but theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a
, succeed. I want to start with finance, first of all, the Digital Currency world. While we spend time talking about bitcoin, theres another currency that you guys have been looking into. Joel part of this is, the crypto boom and maybe the receding of said boom that has created a lot of confusion. It seems like bitcoin is a hot thing, and then ethereum and ether. Where am i supposed to get into this . There is another that has caused a lot of attention recently, called ripple. So we wanted to take a hard look at ripple. One of the things we did is, in talking to the Banking Community because ripple says it is a banking solution. The Banking Community said, we dont know what this is for. Carol not so much . Joel xrp, the Digital Currency affiliated with ripple, the thing is sort of like, what is this going to be for . Even though there is a lot of enthusiasm, theres still reason to be really skeptical. Carol it makes you scratch your head a little bit because we know the Financial Commu
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