It was only a few weeks ago that we were all talking about Gamestop and its strange performance on the stock market.

But now this week the financial world appears to be playing catch up once more with the incredible rise of Bitcoin.

So what exactly is Bitcoin and why is it suddenly going through the roof?

Andy O’Donoghue joined Bobby to discuss.

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