Helen Pidd

not particularly for me i think that i haven't got kids myself but i always think of people my age that have got kids and their kids can't afford to live here i don't like the fact that ordinary hackney people can't afford to buy or live here it feels like a your age group or whatever it feels like a little takeover bid and it's not that i don't individually like the people that are coming in i think they're fine because i've checked them down the market or i've

I've got them as neighbours.

But the whole nature of Hackney has completely changed.

Well, it's changed about two or three times in my lifetime.

Younger people of your age, I guess, coming in, in quite large numbers, who have no connection with the area in any of its previous incarnations.

And Broadway Market's a case in point.

I used to go down there.

I'm on my mobility scooter.

I don't go anymore.

But I was always by far the oldest person by a couple of decades when I'd go down there.

Exactly.

I worry that the whole area has become... It's priced at all the local people that you see walking along the street here.

They won't be buying houses.

They might be living in social housing still, and I don't know how long that's going to go on for.

This is The Guardian.

That's his name.

So our big topic today is Bitcoin.

You call this a cryptocurrency.

Well, it's really, really clever.

But I want to thank you all for being here.