Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Cryptocurrencies

[Rhiannon12866]

Digital currencies are generating a lot of excitement. John Oliver enlists Keegan-Michael Key to get potential investors equally excited about the concept of caution.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Damn good segment, pertinent, too ...

Educational, funny, and the ending is great ... John pretty much always delivers.

This is one of his more serious ones though, nothing wrong with that IMHO when the topic is important.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I agree that John is exceptional, his show is always worth tuning in for, whatever the topic

He does cover some important and serious subjects, but they're always relevant and whatever it is, he always makes it entertaining.

[Hav]

3. Very good and important and should be a must-watch

It's amazing that you have to rely on comedians to educate the people similarly to how John Stewart did a much better job at presenting relevant news stories. The show deserves respect for taking so much time.
The short summary was very fitting of how one, based on greed, invests into something when one neither has the financial nor the technological knowledge to make a rational and well researched decision about it and how it opens up the possibilities for so much fraud.

Interestingly, the one talking about the difficulty of turning a chicken nugget back into a chicken was actually the one who was more trustworthy to me. I don't know who he is, but if he was talking about the principles behind encryption (it's easy to create a nugget starting from a chicken but it's hard to get back from a nugget to the chicken), the analogy actually made sense.

[IronLionZion]

4. Republicans should invest everything they have into crypocurrencies

and then they can smugly throw it in our face if it works out for them, or they can blame immigrants and regulations/taxes when it fails.