Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea If you've ever played Team Fortress 2, you know how valuable hats are. To those who haven't: yes, HATS! If a community agrees on the value of something, then that thing can become a currency, to exchange for other goods. Just like american dollar bills (or euros, yen, or any other currency), or... bitcoins. Bitcoins are an online currency worth over $200,000,000, and though they are just 1s and 0s, some think that this is the future of money. On the other hand... mo bitcoins mo problems. Let us know what sorts of crazy ideas you have, about this episode and otherwise: Tweet at us! @pbsideachannel (yes, the longest twitter username ever) Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Idea Channel Facebook! http://Facebook.com/pbsideachannel Hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com/) Links: What is a Bitcoin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo Music: Roglok: http://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/21166 Binarpilot: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/661417/geeks Pocaille: https://soundcloud.com/pocaille/tachyon-pulses EatMe: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/348390/eatme Want some more Idea Channel? Here's Last Week's episode: "Is Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdyc7BpKic0 Want another one? Here ya go: "Are MP3s & Vinyl Better Than Live Music?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsZMZ86zgF4 Here's Some More: "Top 5 Most Artful Video Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAs4Dy-lh8E