# Your World on the Blockchain **URL:** **By** Brock Cusick, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus **Published:** November 10, 2017 --- Brock Cusick joins us this week to talk about bitcoin and the decentralized blockchain technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run on. Brock Cusick joins us this week to talk about the decentralized blockchain technology that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies run on, and about bitcoin itself: how does bitcoin work? What makes it valuable? Why is there a finite amount of bitcoin? What happens when all of the bitcoin is mined? What's next for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology? Will the government step in to regulate this? Can it? **Show Notes and Further Reading** Back in 2014 we invited [Timothy Lee on the show to give us a primer on bitcoin](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/is-bitcoin-the-future-of-money). If you bought a single bitcoin the day this episode was released, that bitcoin is worth $6,734.66 more today (as of 11/9/17)!