Readers. Thank you, everyone. Its such a pleasure to be here and ive really enjoyed this opopportunity to talk to you about the by far the most peculiar book ive ever written in a longshot. I hope to share that with you today as well as frame some of the questions and issues that it raises. This is a book of one how and several competing whys. The how is, h would you go about creating a digital equivalent for currency, cash and coin . This is a significant technical challenge. You need to create an object trivial to transact, impossible to forge. It must be easy to verify to prove it is what it claims to be under conditions and con saints for all kinds of people and it must be able to carry the information about what it is and what its worth without generating information about how its used for by whom. And it has to do this on platforms, networks a and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction laws and records in their very functioning. In other words, figuring
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Its 9 00 oclock. k. Good morning to you. Ood mo thank you very much for youyu joining us on this monday,da december 27th im wisdom, erin como, Steve Chenevey maureenauen umeh. Holly and allison theyre out oo here. Theyre on vacation. Good for them. Hem. Time off enjoy it. Oy i well get to weather in little n bit. T. First though we do want to get g caught up on breaking news news coming out of dc. Putting the ants together for you late details in missing womans case that turned into aa Murder Investigation just winusi the last few hours. Local Yoga Instructor andinctor actress went missing oness went Christmas Day. Her body was recently found andd a suspect apparently has been arrested. Sted moment ago the dc policehe dpoli Department Just wrapped up appea press conference with a lot ofoo new information. Anjali hemphill is breaking it down for us this morning. Morni. There was a lot of informationni to sort through there, anjali. Make it simple for us. Have they arrested someone andoe
By colleagues, widely respected. With friends on both sides of the ideological divide. We agree on a whole lot of stuff, we do. Ruth is really bad only on the kneejerk stuff. This morning, the battle already brewing over the chance to tilt the balance of the nations highest court. President obama ready to nominate a replacement, the senates majority leader saying not so fast. And the republican candidates also weighing in overnight at a raucous debate. I think we ought to let the next president of the United States decide. Its called delay, delay, delay. Our Team Coverage as we remember this giant of the court. And good morning, everybody. Americans are waking up to a huge story this morning. The passing of Justice Scalia. Hes being remembered for his brilliant legal mind and fiery George Stephanopoulos joins us this morning. This is such big news, dan. Justice scalia, such a towering figure. A pillar of the conservative moment. His death puts the Supreme Court election. The court divi