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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
2020-01-13

Tokenized NBA Contracts & The Hunt For Crypto’s Killer App

Starting today, accredited investors will be able to part of $13.5m in tokenized bonds connected to …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-11

The Breakdown Weekly Recap | Jan 11 2020

All 5 episodes of The Breakdown in one long file. By popular demand, this is an experiment to see if…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-10

China Completes "Top-Level" Digital Currency Design

China’s digital currency project continues to move ahead aggressively, with a new paper from the Peo…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-09

Why 2020 Is The Year Of DAOs feat Aragon's Luis Cuende

The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later so…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-08

Travis Kling on the BTC Bump and Safe Haven Status

The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missil…
 
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2020-01-07

How Compliance Costs Could Kill Crypto Innovation

In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries a…
 
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2020-01-06

What Iran and Instability Mean For Bitcoin

Last week, the US government took out a key Iranian military leader. As the world - and the markets …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-03

YouTube, Tron and the Pipedream of Decentralized Social Networks

The past few weeks have seen multiple instances of large, centralized tech giants censoring crypto r…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-01-01

Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020

Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-31

Tom Shaughnessy & Jordan Clifford on Layer 1 Wars, Token Economics and A Shift to Applications

Tom Shaughnessy is a co-founder at Delphi Digital as well as the host of the Chain Reaction podcast.…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-30

Katherine Wu on DeFi and the Inevitability of the Digital Yuan

Katherine Wu was a founding team member at Messari before moving into a VC role at Notation Capital,…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-27

Camila Russo and David Hoffman on the 2020 DeFi Outlook

Sometimes things are clear, and to both Camila Russo (write of The Defiant newsletter) and David Hof…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-26

Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon

Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily Bitcoin newsletters and co-host of Tales F…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-25

Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on fundraising, halvings, and the long steady slog of…

Rob Paone, aka Crypto Bobby, got his start as a popular crypto YouTuber and has gone on to help buil…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-24

Meltem Demirors on Government Digital Currencies and Why ‘The Halvening’ Gets Weird

One of CoinDesk’s ten most influential people of 2019, Melem Demirors is a crypto renaissance woman,…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-23

Peter McCormack On A Defiant New Era For Bitcoin

Peter McCormack is one of the most prominent podcasters in the space. In 2019, he added a new podcas…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-20

Art Haus Ethereum Meets Bitcoin Financialization

One of the most important (yet somehow quiet) narratives of 2019 has been the financialization of bi…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-20

Should the Government Have A Say In Where You Invest?

Accredited investor laws block most of the US out of technology and other types of early stage risk …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-19

“Stacking Sats” vs. “ETH is Money” - The Memes That Shaped 2019

From “digital gold” to “stacking sats” to “ETH is money,” 2019 was a year of narrative battlegrounds…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-17

Productizing bitcoin maximalism and the emergent of "digital assets not blockchain"

More crypto businesses are transitioning to or choosing to focus exclusively on bitcoin only from th…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-16

Authoritarian Airdrops, Derivative Competitions, and Lightning at the Point of Sale

If 2019 saw bitcoin come together around the digital gold/digital SoV narrative, is 2020 poised for …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-13

The ECB Gets In On Stablecoins, 2017 Token Projects Resurface & Twitter Debates: Is Crypto For Crimi…

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s comments on stable coins flew around crypto Twit…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-12-12

Regulatory smackdown, DeFi on Bitcoin, and Jack Dorsey’s protocol dreams

The last few days have seen significant regulatory action, from SEC charging Shopin’s CEO with fraud…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-11-20

Narrative Watch: The Tokenization Saga Continues

Three stories about tokenization today: ShapeShift launching FOX (an exchange token); BlockTV launch…