This house comes with a built-in cryptocurrency miner. :Planet Money :NPR

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Mark Massey stands in front of the house he is selling, with what he calls "The world's first commercially available encryption device."

Mark Massey stands in front of the house he is selling with what he calls

The cryptocurrency market has hit rock bottom since the end of last year. The cryptocurrency market has shed $2 trillion, about two-thirds of its peak, casting doubt on cryptocurrencies and their long-term viability.

So when we heard about a real estate agent in Philadelphia who had installed a cryptocurrency mining machine in his house for sale, we decided to check it out. Maybe we’d go to an open house and find cryptocurrency believers mingling with newbies, all wondering: What is cryptocurrency good for?

In this episode, we travel to the City of Brotherly Love to check out a list of homes we’ve never seen before: crypto homes.

Special thanks to Brady Dale of Axios and Robert Hackett of Andreessen Horowitz.

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