With $36 trillion in national debt, many in the US are beginning to look for radical and nontraditional ways of addressing the growing problem. For Benchmark Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst Mark Palmer that answer might be crypto. On a recent episode of Opening Bid with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, Palmer explains why.

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This post was written by Rachael Lewis-Krisky, producer for Opening Bid.