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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
2019-09-19

Regulatory clap back / Why co's should fund open source / N. Korea crypto

Major regulatory and law enforcement clap back as SEC targets ICOBox (who would have believed that a…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-18

Fed cuts & repo / Binance.US's BNB surprise / Bitcoin ETF withdrawn

The FED has pumped the equivalent of half of Bitcoin's market cap into the markets over the last cou…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-17

Hashgraph & alt season dreams / Privacy coin delistings / Tokenized real estate & NBA contracts

Hashgraph is live and alts are in the green. Is it alt season or just wishful thinking? Over in the …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-16

Narrative Watch: Bitcoin is Political

As this was being recorded, Facebook was being grilled by 26 central banks about their plans for Lib…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-13

CLASH! The State vs. Crypto | BTC futures & DeFi Robo Advisors | Invest:Asia trend recap

The clash of global state power and crypto seems more inevitable than ever. Germany joins France in …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-12

QE is good for Bitcoin / Binance US opens next week / France to block Libra / BTC on Premier League …

More qualitative easing out of Europe means more "look at them they're doing it we should be doing i…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-11

Coinbase exploring IEOs / Trump Tweets For Negative Rates / Bitcoin #s Beyond The Price

At Invest: Asia in Singapore today, Coindesk's heat of institutional sales in Asia hinted that the c…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-10

Bitcoin bank-ification / Do airdrops work? / Apple, Amazon & crypto

A new product from Gemini which allows custody customers to trade without moving their coins out of …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-09

Narrative Watch: Impatience, Greed or Fear? What's driving the crypto Fall blues?

Despite Bakkt opening warehousing, BTC holding strong around $10k, and many new announcements, it's …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-06

Libra vs. China: The Global Digital Money Wars Heat Up

One of the most important global economic battles of our time is the battle to create new standards …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-05

The Great BTC-Alt Divergence / Epic Rap Battles Of Adoption / Derivative Games

BTC dominance is over 70%, and the gap between its performance and everything else may be accounting…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-09-04

Special Edition: Summer Recap & Fall Predictions from 15 of Crypto's Top VCs, Entrepreneurs & minds

To celebrate the official end of summer and beginning of fall, I asked 15 top crypto VCs, entreprene…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-26

Narrative Watch: The Game of Coins & The Battle Over The Global Reserve Currency

In the game of coins, you [replace the USD as the world's reserve currency or at least shore up your…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-23

Stablecoin battles / Trade Wars & Safe Havens / Berlin Blockchain Recap

Libra Association on the verge of losing members? That's the report from FT as members get spooked b…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-22

Terrorism, Sanctions & Global Opioid Rings: The Return of the Crypto Crime FUD Narrative

What do Palestinian bitcoin brokers, bitcoin rewards via hangover deliveries and a Russian spy scand…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-21

EU antitrust action on Libra / SEC dings ICO rating sites / CEOs vs. China on Hong Kong

Well that didn't take long. The European Union has already started looking into antitrust action on …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-20

Dovey Wan on Binance's Venus / Snowden on surveillance at Web3 / INX $130m IPO / Bitcoin Miniscript

Binance is pursuing a strategy that is a bottoms-up "belt and road" alternative to Facebook's top do…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-20

Narrative Watch: Binance, Venus and the coming battle of CBDCs & non-sovereign fiat

Binance blew open the doors on the global battle for stablecoin supremacy today when they announced …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-16

The 11 Archetypes Of People You Need To Follow On Bitcoin/Crypto Twitter

Bitcoin and Crypto Twitter are wild, weird places. On this special "sorry I'm traveling, can't give …
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-15

Ponzi scam selling, Hong Kong protest bank runs & buying creators with internet money

Why number go down? That's all anyone was asking as BTC plunged below $10k, a line that, according t…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-14

The SEC's ICO cleanup / China's convenient surveillance money / Recruiting new blood

What is dead may yet still die. At least, that seems to be the case as the SEC goes one by one throu…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-13

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 8.13 | Argentina economic turbulence (feat. MakerDAO's Mariano Conti) + ETF delay…

After surprise election results, the Argentine economy tumbled. The stock market fell 48%, and the p…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-12

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 8.12 | Impending currency crisis? Plus, Binance US listing criteria and prospects…

Bonds. Dollars. Bitcoin. Gold. That's what some are saying pay attention to at the beginning of a gl…
 
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The Breakdown
2019-08-09

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 8.9 | Travis Kling on how BTC moves from risk asset to safe haven / Binance US li…

Travis Kling joins for today's 3@3 to explore how bitcoin might move from a risk asset to a safe hav…