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- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
BREAKDOWN: Puppets, Pundits and Partnerships: Why Crypto Sentiment and Prices Are Soaring
With blockchain puppets (we really mean it) on TV, CNBC pushing the bitcoin-as-gold narrative and The Guardian seeing connections between coronavirus and bitcoin's recent rally, we've got a lot to ta…
00:18:31 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Muneeb Ali Explains Blockstack's Big Bet on Bitcoin
Last week, Blockstack announced a new proposal through which node operators would be rewarded in bitcoin. The concept behind Proof of Transfer is that, for the cryptoasset ecosystem to run, electrici…
00:32:40 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: On the Frontlines of the SEC Safe Harbor Proposal With CoinList CoFounder Andy Bromberg
Last week, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce proposed Rule 195 to give token projects a 3 year safe harbor. This proposed period would allow them to distribute tokens without fear of violating securitie…
00:23:17 |
Mon 10 Feb 2020
LTB!: US Crypto Taxes Are a Nightmare. Could These Proposals Help?
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the US tax treatment of "Virtual Currencies" and how scams find a home …
00:52:34 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Kraken’s Dan Held on What’s Different About Bitcoin at $10K This Time
Bitcoin is on a 7 week upward trend. Having already smashed through its $9,000 Vegeta memes, it is now inching closer towards $10k.
On this episode, @nlw is joined by Kraken’s Dan Held to discuss ho…
00:25:36 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Federal Reserve Has Its ‘Come to Satoshi’ Moment
That’s the way Meltem Demirors described Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard’s remarks at Stanford yesterday. For the first time, the Fed has said that it is actively researching and experimenting…
00:17:22 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: What All These VC Deals and Acquisitions Say About the State of the Crypto Markets
If venture investments and acquisitions provide a window into the sentiment in markets, boy did we get a big dose of information today.
Today we look at investments in the world’s best known develop…
00:20:21 |
Wed 05 Feb 2020
Handshake's Uncensorable Web Domains Go Live on Mainnet
As claims of election tampering, fraud, and other dubious activities fly around the botched Democratic Caucus in Iowa, trust in our public institutions continues to crater.
The question of trust and…
00:22:15 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
Bitcoin and the Sex Industry
Bitcoin and porn go hand-in-hand in this interview with Spankchain community manager Allie Eve Knox.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com…
00:25:15 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Deplatforming, Ethereum Marketing and Whether Brexit Matters for Crypto
Much of the Crypto Twitter conversation this weekend was dominated by talk of Twitter’s suspension of ZeroHedge. @nlw explores why the specifics of the infraction or the quality of the publication ar…
00:21:01 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project
In “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part…
00:47:17 |
Sun 02 Feb 2020
The Founders of Synthetix and Chainlink on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds
On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Sergey Nazarov and Kain Warwick, the founders of Chainlink and Synthetix respectively about:
The evolution and goals of Synthetix, a novel type o…
00:51:54 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Unsolved Mystery of How to Fund Public Protocols
The best way to fund open source projects remains a question, and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher stakes. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen live action experime…
00:21:31 |
Thu 30 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Binance US CEO Catherine Coley Explains Why Crypto Exchanges Are Rushing Into Staking
The competition around staking is heating up, and the latest entrant is Binance.US, who will begin to offer staking on two assets with plans to roll out more in the future.
On this episode of The Br…
00:22:48 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Future of Crypto FUD
We’re over $9,000! That means a lot of good things, of course. But any price increase brings with it increased scrutiny and, yes, increased FUD. The question for this time around is whether the FUD i…
00:22:00 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
DISCUSSION: What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show (Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murphy) gathered to …
00:58:35 |
Sun 26 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Davos, CBDCs, and the Rise of Bitcoin Art
That’s a wrap! The World Economic Forum is over, and the key ideas coming out of Davos for our industry are: 1) a continued ‘blockchain, not crypto’ narrative; 2) a believe in the inevitability of ca…
00:20:45 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Will Mass Adoption Be More PayPal or Pornhub?
There is an ongoing debate in the crypto community about where mainstream adoption. One point of view is that it will be the slow steady acceptance of digital assets. On that front, Bakkt president A…
00:19:45 |
Thu 23 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why High-Profile Defections Aren’t Libra’s Biggest Challenge
News broke yesterday that the Libra Association had seen it’s eighth high-profile defection, this time from the telecom giant Vodafone. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, @nlw argues that Associati…
00:18:05 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Controversy and the Future of Open-Source Funding
Ever since announcing their fourth round of grants, Gitcoin has been a major subject of conversation across the Twittersphere. In addition to all the excited buzz from both technical projects and med…
00:27:41 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
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