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Hello, and welcome to Six Minute English.
I'm Dan, and joining me today is Neil.
Hey, Neil.
Hello, Dan.
What's on the agenda today?
Well, I'll give you a clue.
It's something that makes the world go round,
but it doesn't really exist.
In fact, if we all stopped believing in it,
it would have no use at all.
What is it?
I haven't got a clue.
OK, how about this?
Hmm, money.
And not just any money, we're talking about cryptocurrency.
Currency is the money that's being used in a given country at a certain time.
But what about the crypto part?
Well, crypto is a prefix, meaning hidden or secret.