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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Crypto Daily Bloomberg I heard podcast, and

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

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, December. Now I'm Philip log Across there in

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Speaker 1: today for Stacy Marie Ishmael. Well, it's been an extremely

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Speaker 1: messy month or so in crypto since slam bankmn Fred's

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Speaker 1: exchange ft X collapsed. But today we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about something entirely different. We're going to talk about an

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Speaker 1: n f T vending machine. You heard me right, an

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Speaker 1: n f T vending machine For your listeners who are

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Speaker 1: new to crypto. N f T stands for non fungible tokens,

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Speaker 1: which are assets that, like bitcoin, won a block chain

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Speaker 1: the rage last year, but this year prices have come

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Speaker 1: falling down along with the rest of crypto. But what

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Speaker 1: if you could buy an n f T from a

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Speaker 1: vending machine. Earlier this year, a machine just like that

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Speaker 1: popped up in central London. The company behind this vending machine,

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Speaker 1: n f T s Hugo McDonald, the CEO and co

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Speaker 1: the vending machine initiative was really about trying to just

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Speaker 1: is inaccessible. Along with Bloomberg reporter tanseel act are and

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Speaker 1: people couldn't choose what the piece of art would be, right,

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Speaker 1: So it was like a lucky dip. So it's literally

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Speaker 1: like you just put in a tenner, you know, pay

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Speaker 1: a tenna, and you get what you get. You Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show. Thanks for having me and tas Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show. Thanks Phil. Good to be on the

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Speaker 1: show with you and h you go. I am excited, Hugh.

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Speaker 1: Can you briefly tell us a little bit what you

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Speaker 1: do and what your background is and how did you

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Speaker 1: get into crypt Sure, so I've been in crypto for

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Speaker 1: the idea of a peer to peer currency, a trust

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Speaker 1: at that time that myself and my two other co founders,

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Speaker 1: And then, even more recently, after two or three years

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