brian armstrong joins us in the studio. first of all, your story is really interesting.t airbnb to start coin base before became -- before bitcoin became a big deal. >> we were moving money all over the world and i was working on fraud prevention and i decided to take a big bet on bitcoin and we thought it was going to be a big deal. >>ns out, that was right in with a company like overstock, how complicated is that? you are processing all of this. what does that involve? >> we did an integration that allows them to midi great there -- to mitigate their exchange rate risk. they are converting it to dollars. it is really a cheaper way for them to accept payments from anybody, all over the world. >> does that mean they are not taking on any risk? >> that is right. we are providing that as a company. >> so you are taking the risk. >> correct. >> overstock says they are accepting bitcoin. says, we are not. how does the volatility affect you guys? >> we think 2014 will be the year a lot of big merchants start to accept bitcoin. >> but you are going to be taking on all the risk

i want to personally thank brian lawrence and bruce am as -- armstrong for their incredible assistance to getting us to this point and lastly my partner and brother-in-law lee for his tireless work for nearly 4 years in bringing all of the pieces of this amazing puzzle together. thank you everyone and everyone i did not mention. before i bring up the mayor, i would like to discuss something. we also install a time capsule. we want to make the time capsule more meaningful. in addition to burying it on the sight, -- site, we plan to have a display of it. most likely and most obviously it will be how dumb our smartphones are for that time. i guess i should show you what it looks like. we are actually not going to bury it today. we are going to take some suggestions. anybody ha has any interesting ideas, please be sure to let one of us know. so far our partners at kennedy are contributing aerial photos of the before version of this area surrounding the transbay center and to make this local and timely we also couldn't resist including a picture of the bat kid who put so many smiles on san

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brian. >> let me tell you what's going on in the world of baseball. yesterday, headlines, a rod, baseball's version of lance armstrongainst major league baseball and get this, the players union to overturn the 162-game suspension for using peds. rodriguez maintains he never tested positive, but look at the evidence. it's an insult to your intelligence to think he's not guilty as sin. this is the strongest suspension ever. he's called out everyone, but he stands there alone. only him and his high priced lawyers agree that he is indeed innocent of charges. he's just being targeted by baseball. >> yeah. >> it's ridiculous. >> all right. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. >> next we have lou dobbs. he knows a way republicans can take back the senate and the white house and he's promising to say it out loud. >> good morning. ♪ ♪ al protein. [ female announcer ] try a yummy lean cuisi dish. with 13 grams oprotein for 10 ys, you'll feel great. i'm trying this too. maybe this. nope. not trying that. [ femalannouncer ] ditch the diet. go on a try-it with lean cuisin [ femalannouncer ] ditch the diet. progress-oh! [ female