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Jul 2024
29m 47s

Getting Robbed, Making Millions, and Lea...

The Motley Fool
About this episode

What would you do if you had $10 million in cryptocurrency?


Nathaniel Eliason is the author of Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance. The Motley Fool’s Scott Kassing caught up with Eliason for a conversation about:


- How Eliason’s journey in crypto affected how he thinks about risk.

- Why speculative crypto games were rigged against retail traders.

- How fast money corrupts those grabbing for it.


Host: Scott Kassing

Guest: Nathaniel Eliason

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Tim Sparks, Kyle Carruthers

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