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It? >> sure, so i am definitely still bullish for the long-term of crypto. i think over this -- this -- this next decade, we are going to start seeing, you know, have -- have a -- have an exponential increase in user adoption. we are starting -- what we have seen already that crypto's grown at double the pace what the internet did. so, that just goes to show, despite the extreme volatility, that is the actual growth of the networks behind these cryptoassets growing tremendously, and i think you can easily approximabe scared b extreme volatility but if you look behind the volatility in terms of...

Internet. >> very good point. brian stelter, thank you so much for your work on this. appreciate it. be sure to catch more of brian today. of course, he is just getting started today. "reliable sources" at 11:00 a.m. is where you will find him right here on cnn. still ahead. cryptocurrency has been touted as the future of finance. but last week has some investors second guessing that notion. the ups and downs of an untested market and analysis coming up after a quick break. sta stay w with us. you'll love our formrmula for face, too. aveeno®. my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ it was...

I know you have heard it. de-centralized and digital cryptocurrency has been described as the future of money. it's made investors extraordinarily rich. others have lost millions. >> including, in the last week, when several cryptocurrencies collapsed, even those believed to be among the most stable. that raised alarm among some of the nation's top-financial regulators. >> reporter: it's touted as nearly impossible to counterfeit, fast to transfer, keeping users anonymous, and not beholden to any central bank. the appeal of cryptocurrency has led to skyrocketing value. its market cap peaking a...

Almost 30,000 Bitcoin millionaires have been wiped in the last three months as the volatile cryptocurrency is witnessing a free fall -- from $69,000 in November to nearly $36,000 (as of Thursday) -- owing to regulatory scrutiny and geopolitical unrest.

Is that what you're telling me? >> well, congresswoman, yes for specific things like that. >> would i be able to run advertisements on facebook targeting republicans and primaries saying that they voted for the green new deal? i mean, if you're not fact checking political advertisements, i'm just trying to understand the bounds here. >> i don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. >> do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact checking on political advertisements? >> i think lying is bad and i think if you were to run an ad that had a lie that would be bad. >> s...