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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 3554
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
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
Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of dece…
00:41:30 |
Sun 19 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice Of DeFi
One man. Three piping hot takes. In this special interview episode of The Breakdown, financial advisor and crypto advocate Tyrone Ross shares his thoughts on:
Why Financial Advisors are the key to b…
00:28:20 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why 'Crypto Dad' Is Building the Digital Dollar Foundation
As Libra continues to spur discussions among regulators around the world, and China’s digital yuan comes ever closer to fruition, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems disinclined to look seriously at a dig…
00:16:04 |
Thu 16 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto's 'Rogue State' Narrative is a Risk to the Industry
Crypto tokens weren’t the only thing that saw a major pump yesterday. The total value locked in DeFi ascended to new heights. While part of this can be explained simply by the rise in ETH price, it a…
00:16:08 |
Wed 15 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge | January 14th, 2020
Bitcoin is up more than 8% in the last 24 hours. BSV, meanwhile, is up nearly a whopping 100%. The question is, of course, why? Is it some larger macro context? A pump-and-dump? Or just the crypto ma…
00:18:06 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto's Killer App | January 13th 2020
Starting today, accredited investors will be able to part of $13.5m in tokenized bonds connected to the contract of Brooklyn Nets Point Guard Spencer Dinwiddie. The first-of-its-kind offering took mo…
00:20:57 |
Mon 13 Jan 2020
'The Internet Was Illegal' and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show enlisted CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox for a conversation …
00:55:46 |
Sun 12 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Global Game of Coins Heats Up | January 10th, 2020
China’s digital currency project continues to move ahead aggressively, with a new paper from the People’s Bank of China suggesting that a core design is complete. Whatever stage of development the cu…
00:16:31 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
NARRATIVE WATCH: Will DAOs Break Out In 2020? | January 9th, 2020
The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later some other aspects of the web3 movement. In 2019, however, DAOs came roaring back and start 2020 with…
00:20:18 |
Thu 09 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 2019
The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw the price of BTC both surge and retrace in parallel with crude and gold. To he…
00:16:04 |
Wed 08 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Hamstringing an Industry With Compliance Costs | January 7th, 2020
In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries as compared to 2018, which CEO Jesse Powell later revealed cost the exchange more than $1m. Between …
00:17:50 |
Tue 07 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: Taking the TON out of Telegram | January 6th 2020
Last week, the US government took out a key Iranian military leader. As the world - and the markets - reacts to the news, some are asking what happens with bitcoin. With global instability on the ris…
00:17:59 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
YouTube, Tron and the Dream of Decentralization | January 3rd, 2019
The past few weeks have seen multiple instances of large, centralized tech giants censoring crypto related content and activity. Noticed in the context of the Coinbase Wallet, Apple is pushing back a…
00:12:47 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: 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 of year coverage, she argues that the level of discourse in crypto matured in 2019, with more focus…
00:17:08 |
Wed 01 Jan 2020
BREAKDOWN: 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. Jordan Clifford is managing director of Scalar Capital. In this end of year interview for The Brea…
00:25:01 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
BREAKDOWN: 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, but is perhaps best known in crypto for her epic annotations of key regulatory enforcement actions…
00:16:40 |
Mon 30 Dec 2019
BREAKDOWN: 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 Hoffman (co-host of the Crypto POV podcast), it couldn’t be clearer that the essential narrative of 20…
00:24:45 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
BREAKDOWN: 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 From The Crypt. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context -…
00:14:56 |
Thu 26 Dec 2019
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