Cryptocurrency: Beyond Bitcoin Teach-Out

Currency plays a great role in modern history; the oldest known form of physical currency is over 5,000 years old. But the Mesopotamian shekel and the distributed ledgers that define cryptocurrency - often shortened to “crypto” -  look and act very differently. In this next video, Robert Dittmar, Professor Finance at the University of Michigan, discusses how well cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin meet the definition of a currency.