David Schreier, futurist and professor of practice at Imperial College London, explained to me the appeal of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as the global economy was collapsing.

So the basic premise of Bitcoin was they wanted to create an ability to have what's known as a trustless medium of exchange and store of value.

And by trustless, I mean that right now, if I want to send money to someone else who has a bank account somewhere else, they had to convince their bank to trust them and do background check on them and make sure that they're a real person, they're a safe person to do business with.

And then they trust that their bank is going to make sure that the money is received.

And I trust that my bank is going to make sure the money is sent.

So there are all these trusted party relationships that go on, and the two banks trust each other and the international settlement system.

There's all these trusted relationships going on when you want to move money from here to Delhi or...

Is Bitcoin then little more than gold for the modern age?

So where do the regulators come in and who trains and educates the regulators so they can actually make the right decisions on how to police this?

I actually think the FCA and the Bank of England are among the most sophisticated government regulators about technology that I've encountered.

And I've worked across 150 governments.

So I think I have a representative sample to say, you know, they're on the more progressive end of the spectrum in terms of their knowledge.

They may be cautious to take action, and there are reasons to be cautious, but sandboxes are a good thing.

That is one of the, I think, better interventions that a government can take in order to understand the effects of a technology.

And so, you know, that said, I mean, look, I'm going to be briefing some government officials later today who reached out to me.

Can you explain what that means and how you go about keeping yourself up to date and learning new things?