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The top stories and best shows in the blockchain world, delivered daily from the team at CoinDesk.
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- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
AFRICA: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere (Part 4 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)
In part 4 of this six-part documentary podcast series about Bitcoin in Africa we'll join Anita as she speaks with a young woman from Harare, Zimbabwe. She calls herself a 'Digipreneur' and also works…
01:00:08 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Questions We're Not Allowed to Ask, Feat. Hidden Forces' Demetri Kofinas
Demetri Kofinas is the host of Hidden Forces, a popular podcast that examines markets through the lens of large patterns of change.
On this episode, Demetri and @NLW discuss:
How the politicization…
01:07:16 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Exit Plans, Premature Rallies and Frontline Heroes, Feat. Ben Hunt
Epsilon Theory’s Ben Hunt joins for a follow up to our pre-lockdown Covid-19 conversation in early March. In the month since, the markets finally started to take Covid-19 seriously, elected officials…
00:36:08 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: How Disruption Makes Humanity Stronger, Feat. Emerson Spartz
Second order effects are things that happen as unexpected outcomes of something else happening. These effects can create surprising causal chains.
Take this for example: A pandemic makes everyone ne…
00:56:36 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
LTB!: BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen on Coronavirus Second Order Effects and Improving on Bitcoin
In Today's discussion we'll briefly talk about some of the knock-on, or second order affects which the coronavirus disruption is having on our world today, and which may continue into the future. The…
01:03:07 |
Sun 05 Apr 2020
RESEARCH: Miner Perspectives on Bitcoin Halving 2020, Part 1 of a New Podcast Series
In about 40 days, the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, bitcoin, will undergo a pre-programmed block reward reduction known as the halving.
Roughly every 4 years, bi…
00:28:00 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: Will DeFi Matter in a Post-Coronavirus World? Feat. Matt Luongo
Matt Luongo got his start in bitcoin in 2013. In 2016, he watched a pivotal moment where the sound money, digital gold narrative subsumed the payments use case for bitcoin. While he agreed, ultimatel…
00:35:34 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: 5 Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Crypto
The economic outlook is grim. The jobless claims keep piling up and even the most intransigent states are shutting down business. There isn’t - yet - a realistic plan - for returning to any sort of e…
00:23:08 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
AFRICA: Using Bitcoin in Zimbabwe (Part 3 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)
After three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch is back in part 3 of her six-part documentary podcast series.
In the first and second part of thi…
00:52:05 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan
“Some countries just aren’t going to emerge from the Coronavirus.”
Peter Zeihan is one of the world’s foremost geopolitical experts. In his new book “Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an U…
00:49:54 |
Wed 01 Apr 2020
BREAKDOWN: ‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention’ Feat. Nic Carter
In this wide-ranging discussion, Castle Island Ventures founding partner and Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter joins @NLW to discuss:
Why corporations weren’t adequately prepared for any serious ec…
00:42:43 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 Is Changing Key Crypto Narratives
On January 28th, Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal tweeted “Notable overlap on here between the most alarmist people tweeting about the virus and those who are obsessed with the size of the Fed balance shee…
00:21:27 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
LTB!: How MakerDAO's Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization
In the aftermath of the so-called "Black Thursday" crash from several weeks ago, MakerDAO's "DAI" ethereum backed dollar pegged stablecoin came untethered and was, for a time at least, functionally i…
00:48:27 |
Sun 29 Mar 2020
MICHAEL CASEY: Disruption, Money and a World of Change, Feat. Niall Ferguson
"...I think the right lesson to draw from all of this is that a global order needs to be based on a distributed operating system, not on a centralized architecture. And I think that applies not just …
00:39:27 |
Sat 28 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: From Corporate Socialism to Dying for the Dow: 7 Themes That Defined the Week
In this episode of The Breakdown, @NLW reflects on the themes that defined an absolutely wild week in global markets and society.
Those themes include:
Unlimited QE - broad new powers (corporate bo…
00:21:47 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: How BlackRock Ended Up on Both Sides of the Bailout, Feat. Meltem Demirors
The Senate passed $2T in Stimulus. That includes a one time $1,200 check to impacted individuals and….you guessed it, billions and billions for corporate relief. Included in that are hundreds of bill…
01:04:05 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
BITCOIN IN AFRICA: Hyperinflation and Zimbabwe's Multi-Currency Reality
In this second part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary series, join Anita as she learns about Zimbabwe and the country's multiple currencies. Combining on-the-ground recordings, interview…
00:43:11 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why the U.S.' $2 Trillion Stimulus, Unlimited QE Will Expose the Monetary System’s Flaws
CoinDesk’s Chief Content Officer Michael Casey and Head of Research Noelle Acheson join for a lively debate about the new $2 trillion stimulus package and era of “unlimited” QE, including:
Whether (…
00:33:24 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Coronavirus, Feat. Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko
Mark Yusko is the founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and @NLW discuss:
Why bitcoin has fallen with stocks over the last few weeks
Why price and value…
01:03:47 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Unlimited QE and Why Markets Can't Price in COVID-19
Last October, Ikigai Asset Management’s Travis Kling predicted that Central Banks would have to “juice QE to infinity” in order to save markets from recession. Yesterday on 60 Minutes, Fed President …
00:17:25 |
Mon 23 Mar 2020
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