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Speaker 1: I'm Stacy Marie Ishmael, Managing editor of Crypto for Bloomberg News,

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Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg Crypto, a daily Bloomberg I heart podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, August. The day to day a pulse of

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Speaker 1: crypto can be unrelenting and no two days are alike,

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad I get to spend those days with

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Speaker 1: my colleagues on the Bloomberg Crypto team to help me

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Speaker 1: distill the latest developments in the world of digital assets

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Speaker 1: for all of you are listeners and all of our

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Speaker 1: readers of our stories. Today, I'm joined once again by

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg senior editors Anna Irrera. There's always someone waking up,

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Speaker 1: always someone needing an edit, always someone with a story idea,

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Speaker 1: and Philip Blogger, cancer prosecutors doing raid on different crypto exchanges,

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Speaker 1: people's homes for the latest Friday in the editor's room

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Speaker 1: at Welcome back to the podcast. Hi, thank you, and

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Speaker 1: I know you were joining us today from your closet.

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Speaker 1: I am indeed, this is my preferred location for podcast recordings.

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Speaker 1: It's wonderful and cozy and probably around forty degrees celsius,

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Speaker 1: which is like what a hundred ninety I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: This is the glamorous life of Bloomberg editor podcasting and

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Speaker 1: Phil you are in frankly more glamorous surroundings than one

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Speaker 1: of the like gorgeous conference rooms in the Zurich office.

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Speaker 1: How's life over there? Live is good? Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Excellence This week, like every other week, I feel that,

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Speaker 1: you know, when I was kind of reviewing the file,

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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, we published a lot of stories

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Speaker 1: I've noticed is that since you joined, which was just

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Speaker 1: has popped up with almost equal frequency in the you know,

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Speaker 1: reported by Field as it has in the edited by Field.

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Speaker 1: And I'd love for you to just talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about what it's like having been a reporter in

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Speaker 1: in the way that you have been. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: And I think in specifically with crypto, I feel it's

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Speaker 1: help reporters frame stories and help with sourcing as well.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure that everything you know is solid, and

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe sometimes a reporter has done great reporting,

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Speaker 1: So I'm happy that I still get to do that,

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