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Johnson, a former cia officer and a contributor to "the daily beast." he wrote an eye catching story this weekend called why is the kremlin suddenly obsessed with crypto currencies. mark, thanks for being here. why is the kremlin so interested in crypto currencies? >> i think there's a lot of reasons why the russians would be interested in crypto currencies. there are plenty of very legitimate uses for them, and the banking industry in the united states and elsewhere is exhibiting a lot of interest in it. but the point i make in the piece is that the sanctions that have been put on the russian...

This guy -- there's a parliamentarian who said he's interested in not bitcoin specifically but other types of crypto currencies, and he thought that they were actually away they could get around sanctions. he actually told this to a conference. but the key point was who this guy is. he's one of the two guys that they believe is responsible for the death of a russian spy with poisoning in london. so that really got my attention. >> your story has certainly gotten our attention. mark c. johnson, thank you so much for walking us through all of that. >> thanks for having me, joy. two things to k...

Guy is. he's one of the two guys that they believe is responsible for the death of a russian spy with poisoning in london. so that really got my attention. >> your story has certainly gotten our attention. mark c johnson, thank you so much for walking us through all of that. >> thanks for having me, joy. two things to keep an eye on this week. one, rachel will be back here tomorrow night. those of you who just tweeted me, that is the answer to your question. two, well, for that, you're going to have to stick around. we'll be right back.

Happened sometime today and blurred a few digits just to be on the safe side. we have no idea who this transaction is between or what it's about. bitcoin is a crypto currency, which is a fancy way of saying it uses encryption to keep transactions safe. i can't pretend to be you, and you can't pretend to be me when we trade with bitcoin because of the encryption, and it makes the transaction impossible to forge. each transaction is verified and recorded by other bitcoin users in a kind of digital ledger called a block chain. how they do it is not really important for the purposes of this story,...