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The Breakdown

A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
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The Breakdown
2021-01-08

Can Bitcoin Just Keep Going Up?

Today on the Brief: U.S. President Trump signs order banning Chinese apps Initial jobless claims ho…
 
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2021-01-07

What Georgia’s Elections Mean for Bitcoin

Today on the Brief: ShapeShift goes full DEX Neil Young and the changing business of music China st…
 
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2021-01-06

Most Important Crypto Regulation Yet? Banks Can Treat Public Blockchains Like SWIFT and ACH

Yesterday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released Interpretive Letter 1174. The lett…
 
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2021-01-05

Understanding Bitcoin's Blistering Rise Past $30,000

The end of December was a momentous time in bitcoin’s history. Not content to clear the psychologica…
 
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2021-01-04

The Unorthodox Trades That Will Drive Value in 2021, feat. Tony Greer

Tony Greer is a macro analyst and author of the Morning Navigator Newsletter. In this conversation, …
 
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2021-01-03

Why Bitcoin Is Bigger Than an Inflation Hedge, feat. Dan Tapiero

Dan Tapiero is an investor and entrepreneur with deep experience in gold and bitcoin. In this conver…
 
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2021-01-02

Bitcoin Is Digital Social Justice, feat. Tyrone Ross

The wealth adviser and CEO of Onramp Invest discusses why the Federal Reserve continues to ignore it…
 
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The Breakdown
2021-01-01

The Most Important Bitcoin Infrastructure Developments of 2020, feat. Alyse Killeen

Alyse Killeen is the founder and managing partner of StillMark, and has been investing in bitcoin co…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-31

What 2020 Taught Us About the ‘Dollar Milkshake Theory,’ feat. Brent Johnson

Brent Johnson is an investor at Santiago Capital and the creator of the well-known “Dollar Milkshake…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-30

The Devastation of Main Street Business, feat. Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle is the chief economist for Tressis SV and a well-known economics personality. In this…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-29

Bitcoin, Bank Coins and Bonds, feat. George Goncalves

George Goncalves has been a macro analyst specializing in bonds for more than 20 years. In this conv…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-28

Sound Money vs. the Great Reset, feat. Mark Moss

Mark Moss is the host of a fast-growing and popular YouTube channel covering economics, bitcoin and…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-27

Central Banks Gone Wild! Feat. Bill Barhydt

Bill Baryhdt is the CEO of Abra, a mobile crypto banking app. In this discussion with NLW, Bill talk…
 
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2020-12-26

The View on Bitcoin From Inside Fidelity Digital Assets, feat. Ria Bhutoria

Ria Bhutoria is the director of research at Fidelity Digital Assets. In this conversation she gives …
 
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2020-12-25

‘Bitcoin and Ethereum Have Gone Completely Separate Directions,’ Feat. Bully Esq.

Bully Esquire is a Crypto Twitter personality, lawyer, founder of AlphaMarkets and host of the “Bull…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-24

Why 2020 Unlocked a New Generation of Investors, feat. Jill Carlson

No one would have expected an economic crisis to bring a new generation of investors to the table, b…
 
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2020-12-23

Hacking Humanity With Bitcoin, feat. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are one of bitcoin's most dynamic duos, producing a variety of content,…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-22

Raoul Pal on the Coming Transformation of Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Raoul Pal is the founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor and Real Vision and one of the leading voi…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-21

Why Bitcoin and Rehypothecation Don’t Mix

On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW starts with the latest essay by Jeffrey Snider, “A Nonsensical…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-20

Preston Pysh on Why Currencies Fail [Encore]

On March 12, as the U.S. government struggled to wrap its head around the emerging COVID-19 pandemic…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-19

Balaji Srinivasan on Communist Capital vs. Woke Capital vs. Crypto Capital

Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, the former CTO of Coinbase, a former Genera…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-18

The CIO of $230B Guggenheim Just Called for $400,000 BTC

With so much focus on bitcoin’s record-setting price run, a number of huge (and hugely bullish) stor…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-16

Why $20,000 Bitcoin Matters

After weeks of flirting with all-time highs, bitcoin has broken through the most significant psychol…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-16

Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein

Ben Hunt is the founder of Second Foundation Partners and lead author of Epsilon Theory. Alex Gladst…