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BREAKDOWN: Why the Robinhood Revolution Is the Future of Finance, Feat. Jill Carlson
July 02, 2020 18:23 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBFar from a fly-by-night, uneducated mania, the new day trader class represents a much more significant force for how public markets are changing. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, Reddit’s WallStreetBets channel was featured on the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek as an emerging market force. Since then, between the surge in signups for Robinhood and the wave of followers of Davey Day Trader Global Global, these day traders ha...
BREAKDOWN: Satoshi’s Unappreciated Marketing Genius, Feat. Dan Held
July 01, 2020 18:17 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThere is a constant free market competition to define the Bitcoin narrative, and Kraken’s Dan Held argues this is part of what makes the protocol so strong. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. Satoshi Nakamoto is often recognized for his technical genius in solving the double-spending problem. He is also widely revered for his willingness to walk away from the protocol to make it stronger, something no other entrepreneur who has created anything on the scale of B...
BREAKDOWN: ‘It Sure Doesn’t Feel Like the Greatest Economy of All Time,’ Feat. George Gammon
June 30, 2020 18:31 - 1 hour - 60 MBThe host of the rapidly growing Rebel Capitalist podcast joins to talk macro, inflation and the almighty battle for ideas. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. What would you do if you were approaching your 40s, burned out and realizing the type of financial success you had been pursuing wasn’t actually serving your true goal of freedom? If you were George Gammon, the answer would be to change everything and start globetrotting in search of new opportunities. ...
BREAKDOWN: How the Fed Fans the Flame – The Best of The Breakdown June 2020
June 29, 2020 18:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBGuests from the crypto investor Ari Paul to Harvard prof Dr. Vikram Mansharamani discuss bitcoin, the economy and social unrest. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. June 2020 will go down in the history books as an extremely chaotic and confusing period. In this “Best of the Month” retrospective, we look at some of the best guest conversations from The Breakdown, including: Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein on the importance of cash for privacy Digi...
BREAKDOWN: Welcome to the Groundhog Day Economy (PS, It Sucks)
June 27, 2020 13:00 - 10 minutes - 9.23 MBAs states shutter economic activity because of preventable COVID-19 outbreaks, it’s deja vu all over again. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. This is a movie we’ve seen before: Rise in what could have been preventable COVID-19 cases A call for shutdowns (plus voluntary closures) Rampant politicization of health and economic issues rather than common sense approaches Persistent jobless claims plus new layoffs Wall Street nerves turning into new Federal R...
BREAKDOWN: How Monopolies Sow the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
June 26, 2020 19:13 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBToday on the Brief: A consumer spending rebound A new crypto regulatory regime in Europe A bitcoin warning from a famed investor This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Our main discussion: Tuur Demeester is the managing partner of Adamant Capital, a bitcoin investment firm that earlier this year published “The Bitcoin Reformation.” In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: The four preconditions for a reformation, and how they apply today How hyperinflatio...
BREAKDOWN: Is Scam Selling Suppressing the Price of Bitcoin?
June 25, 2020 18:50 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBToday we also look at a big win for privacy from Apple, new jobless claims in the “whack-a-mole” economy and the biggest BTC options expiry ever. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today’s edition of The Breakdown is an extended version of the Brief, this time covering five topics. New Jobless claims - sticking stubbornly at ~1.5 million new claims per week, despite economist expectations The “whack-a-mole” economy - Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summer...
BREAKDOWN: Bull vs. Bear... Who Has the Economy Right?
June 24, 2020 18:11 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBThe economy is nothing if not confounding right now. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Across every domain, from real estate to oil to retail, there are bull signals and bear signals. In this episode, NLW looks at those signals in the following areas: Markets - strong stock recovery vs. growth in cash deposits Employment - growth in jobs vs. persistent continuing jobless claims Retail - growth in foot traffic vs. demand destruction Oil - growth in deman...
BREAKDOWN: Oil 101... How Easy Money Enabled the Shale Revolution, Feat. Tracy Shuchart
June 23, 2020 18:31 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBAn oil and commodities expert breaks down how the shale revolution reshaped global energy power and why oil went below $0 earlier this year. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: PayPal and Venmo reportedly adding crypto buying and selling Trump executive order temporarily suspends H1-B visa program Continued growth in bitcoin derivatives Our main conversation: Tracy Shuchart is an oil- and commodities-focused trader in the private equity ...
BREAKDOWN: Macro Investors Sound Off! Featuring Ari Paul, Spencer Bogart and David Nage
June 22, 2020 18:30 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBSome of the smartest investors in the crypto space share how they think the larger macro context is shaping interest in bitcoin and digital assets. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: New Federal Reserve research suggests reaction to Facebook’s Libra basket approach was overblown Italian Banking Association pushing to test a digital euro U.S. housing has worst month since 2010 Our main conversation: Earlier this month, Messari hosted the...
LTB!: Bitcoin Only Matters Because the Game Is Rigged
June 21, 2020 15:12 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the big picture problems facing our world which make things like Bitcoin distinctly appealing despite many inefficiencies when compared to traditional, centralized systems. The episode is sponsored by eToro.com and The Internet of Money Vol. 3 On today's show we're going back to basics. While bitcoin and digital bearer assets in general are an incredib...
BREAKDOWN: A Dozen+ Statistics Proving Millennials Are F%#$&D... The Breakdown Weekly Recap
June 20, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBAn economic comparison of where boomers were at the same age as millennials leads to only one conclusion: Millennials are screwed. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The big narrative in financial media for the last few weeks has been the insurgent Robinhood rally, led by the AC/DC-blaring Pied Piper Dave Portnoy, owner of Davey Day Trader Global Global (DDTG Global). As people try to make sense of the strange retail trading phenomenon, one perspective is th...
BREAKDOWN: Why Monetary Debasement Is Here to Stay, Feat. Dr. Vikram Mansharamani
June 19, 2020 18:31 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBFrom technology to aging demographics, some of the most important trends shaping the economy have been deflationary. What happens when that rapidly changes? This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: FTX lists two Compound tokens Reddit partners with Ethereum Foundation on Layer 2 scaling Black-In Freedom Festival reimagines Juneteenth Our main topic: Dr. Vikram Mansharamani is a lecturer at Harvard and author of “Boombustology: Spotting Finan...
BREAKDOWN: 6 Things Jobless Claims Tell Us About the State of the Real Economy
June 18, 2020 18:26 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBPersistent unemployment and fears of further layoffs are the real economic counterpoint to the financial market’s unbridled enthusiasm. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: Powell says private companies shouldn’t be involved in Central Bank Digital Currencies According to former NSA head John Bolton, Trump told Mnuchin to go after Bitcoin Interest around Compound driving speculation around a DeFi-driven bull run Our main topic: This w...
BREAKDOWN: What Satoshi Understood... Nobody Knows You're a Dog on Social Media, Feat. The Crypto Dog
June 17, 2020 18:26 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBA conversation about pseudo-anonymity, global digital nomadism and the trader’s mindset. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. On the Brief: Big tech vs. the American political right and left Why TikTok users are pretending to love China for clout Decentralizing venture capital Our main conversation: The Crypto Dog is one of crypto Twitter’s best known characters. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss: Mining bitcoin in 2011 The difficulty of hodling ac...
BREAKDOWN: From Moral Hazard to Business as Usual, Feat. Jesse Felder
June 16, 2020 19:07 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBA leading independent financial analysis shares thoughts on the “Robinhood rally,” Fed policy and why Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is already here. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on The Brief: An unexpectedly good retail sales report drives market confidence Are we in for a second wave of white-collar layoffs? The latest rumblings in central bank digital currencies Our main conversation: Jesse Felder is an independent financial analyst and one ...
BREAKDOWN: Sorry, Bloomberg: Here Are 6 Reasons Why 2020 Is a Great Year for Bitcoin
June 15, 2020 18:52 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBA Bloomberg senior editor today argued there were six reasons why 2020 was bad for bitcoin. Here’s the opposite case. Today on the Brief: Stocks down on coronavirus fears Demand destruction The looming retirement crisis This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Our main theme: Bitcoin is up more than 30% on the year. After a crash alongside equities, it has proved incredibly resilient. There are famous new entrants to the space like Paul Tudor Jones II. So how...
LTB!: Bootstrapping Mobile Mesh Networks with Bitcoin Lightning
June 14, 2020 14:24 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBRichard Myers says the future of ad-hoc mesh networks for SMS messages and bitcoin transactions on your smart phone is here, but it needs the lightning network to succeed. The episode is sponsored by eToro.com and The Internet of Money Vol. 3 On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! you're invited to join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murpy and special guest Richard Myers for an in-depth look at the past, present and future of 'Mobile Mesh Networking' technol...
BREAKDOWN: The Chad Index Versus Doomer Internet Money... The Breakdown Weekly Recap
June 13, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week, the wildest, most nonsensical, volatile part of the market wasn’t bitcoin, but the “Robinhood Rally” in equities. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The stock market has long been disconnected from the underlying economy, but much of what happened this week - particularly the pumping of bankrupt company stocks - suggests that something new is afoot. In this episode, NLW breaks down three long-term trends suggested by the so-called Robinhood Rally, ...
LEIGH: How The Porn Industry Changed During Coronavirus, With Performers Wary of Bitcoin
June 13, 2020 13:28 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this audio interview, CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen and adult content creator Allie Awesome talk about payments and money in the sex industry, especially the trends impacted by the coronavirus crisis. From how porn performers and entrepreneurs deal with Bitcoin Twitter to the ways the pandemic changed our digital sex lives, Cuen and Allie explore what actually drives demand for censorship-resistant systems. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The biggest problem? All...
BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is More Than an Inflation Hedge
June 12, 2020 20:39 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWhile fears of a “great monetary inflation” have driven the recent bitcoin narrative, other aspects like censorship resistance and peaceful protest matter just as much. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: Why bitcoin sold off A bank-the-unbanked narrative for the digital dollar It’s Dave Portnoy’s world and we’re all just living in it Today’s main topic: Why inflation isn’t the only bitcoin narrative that matters. When bitcoin’s halving ...
BREAKDOWN: Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality
June 11, 2020 19:13 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThe Federal Reserve expects low inflation, says rates will stay close to zero through 2022 and keeps lying about the role of central banks in increasing inequality. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: Three Arrows holds more than 6% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust New platform for censorship-resistant blogging Coinbase announces new token potentials as anti-surveillance hodlers flood out Today's main topic: The Fed's inequality problem Some...
BREAKDOWN: A Vision for Digital Property Rights, Feat. Nic Carter
June 10, 2020 18:28 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBMost people today look at social platforms like any other private company, but what if we saw them as alternative jurisdictions with a new set of property rights? This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: A record week for peer-to-peer exchanges in the developing world A digital dollar gets discussed in Congress Previewing the Federal Reserve’s FOMC guidance Our main topic: A brainstorm on digital property rights Here’s a radical idea. What ...
BREAKDOWN: What the Stock Market's 'Robinhood Rally' Means for Bitcoin
June 09, 2020 19:22 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBThe largest 50-day rally in stock market history and even stocks of bankrupt companies are up more than 100%. What is going on? This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Today on the Brief: Saudi Arabia injects $13 billion in bank liquidity via blockchain. China’s state TV CCTV says Binance is still allowing crypto trading in China. MakerDAO community greenlights real world collateral. Our main topic: The “Robinhood Revolution.” The next time someone tells you ...
BREAKDOWN: Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today’s Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan
June 08, 2020 18:42 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBThe founder of Popular Front joins NLW for a discussion about protests, media and how the people being covered tend to not reflect divisive politics. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. On today’s episode of The Breakdown, we introduce the Breakdown Brief - a look at three key topics in bitcoin and crypto. Today, the Brief covers: Brave browsers auto adding ref links to Binance.us The disconnect between Wall Street and crypto when it comes to inflation expect...
LTB!: 'Be Your Own Bank' and the 'Luxury of Apathy'
June 07, 2020 14:05 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB'The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the systemically important "Be Your Own Bank" Bitcoin narrative and what it means around the world today. The episode is sponsored by eToro.com and The Internet of Money Vol. 3 On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! you're invited to join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murpy for an in-depth discussion about t...
BREAKDOWN: The Revolution Will Be Retweeted... The Breakdown Weekly Recap
June 06, 2020 13:00 - 8 minutes - 8.22 MBA recap of one of the most significant weeks in recent American political history. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The Breakdown Weekly Recap looks at the key themes that shaped the week. On this week’s episode, NLW discusses: The modern significance of Tiananmen Square, and why this week’s U.S. protests show why the tools of surveillance need to be applied to states, not citizens. The importance of “narrative violations,” or fighting to see things without...
BREAKDOWN: The Biggest Realignment in the US-China Relationship Since Nixon, Feat. Graham Webster
June 05, 2020 18:46 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBHow one of the world’s most important geopolitical relationships came to be what it is in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The U.S.-China relationship has an outsized impact on global economics and politics. As that relationship comes even more into focus in the wake of COVID-19, this episode provides a historical primer. Graham Webster is editor-in-chief of the Stanford–New America DigiChina Project at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center. He’...
BREAKDOWN: The Mirage of the Money Printer... Why the Fed Is More PR Than Policy, Feat. Jeffrey P. Snider
June 04, 2020 18:19 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBThe meme is “money printer go brrr,” but according to this macro expert, central banks have almost no power to actually influence money itself. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The conventional wisdom is that central banks are the most important economic actors in the world. Markets hang on their every word. Yet, what if that power has less to do with actual monetary policy and more to do with how the performance of that policy creates a self-fulfilling pro...
DISCUSSION: Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of Speech
June 04, 2020 16:38 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBU.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Thursday, seeking to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 prevents social media companies from civil liability for the content posted on them. The order targets Twitter and Facebook after Twitter fact-checked two of the President’s tweets. Today, CoinDesk tackles the topic with Chief Content Officer Michael Casey, Privacy Reporter Benjamin Powers, New York Law School professor and past President...
BREAKDOWN: 5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now
June 03, 2020 18:32 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBEvery day that protests continue and the stock market goes up, more people ask what the disconnect between markets and the real economy is. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW peels back the story of today’s economy by looking at five numbers: This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. The growth of the S&P500 since the March 23 low Current unemployment stats and a Bloomberg Economics estimate of the number of jobs at risk The performance of the S&P500 in 1968, one...
BREAKDOWN: Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
June 02, 2020 19:24 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBA conversation with the outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human rights advocate and global power expert. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a powerful voice for the role of bitcoin in combating authoritarianism around the globe. In today's episode, he and NLW discuss: What the protests tell us about the state of democracy in the U.S. The potential impact of protests a...
BREAKDOWN: The Power and Peril of the 'Bitcoin Fixes This' Meme
June 01, 2020 21:14 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBAs the U.S. experiences the most sustained civil disobedience in more than a generation, an exploration of what role bitcoin has to play in building a better system. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace. Cities around the country have been engulfed in protest in the wake of the murder of 46-year-old black man George Floyd. There is an intense battle for the narrative around the protests. Are they legitimate outcries against institutional racism and police brutalit...
LTB!: 'We Need 30 Different Words for Different Kinds of Censorship'
May 31, 2020 14:19 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MB'The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss state sponsored propaganda, corporate censorship and how cryptocurrency or decentralization changes the game. The rallying cry of the totalitarian is "He farted first", but if both systems have produced similar outcomes, is there much of a difference? Inspired by a recent article in the Atlantic, in today's wide-ranging discussion the hosts of Let's Ta...
BREAKDOWN: The Battle for the Future of Money, feat. Lawrence Summers, CZ, Michelle Phan, the Winklevoss brothers, The Chainsmokers and more.
May 29, 2020 18:53 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBAs the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about the battle for the future of money? Does the dollar reign supreme? Are within-the-system competitors like the euro or China’s digital yuan gaining ground? Does an outside the system alternative like bitcoin stand a chance? This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Over the last month, the “Money Reimagin...
BREAKDOWN: The Geopolitical Implications of a Too-Strong Dollar, Feat. Brent Johnson
May 28, 2020 18:42 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBA macro expert joins to discuss why the U.S. dollar and economy are more broadly poised to suck the liquidity from the entire global economy. This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. You know the meme: Money printer go brrr. It means inflation right? Not necessarily, says Brent Johnson. Since 2016-2017, Johnson has been arguing the big economic issue of our time isn’t inflation of the U.S. dollar due ...
BREAKDOWN: Why Innovation Matters (and How Not to Screw It Up), Feat. Matt Ridley
May 27, 2020 18:19 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? According to Matt Ridley, it was because Edison was the progenitor of an “innovation factory” that didn’t just create things but brought them to market in a way no one else did. Innovation is one of the most important...
BREAKDOWN: Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis
May 26, 2020 18:21 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. The battle to control narratives is the battle to shape how people understand the world around them. But the traditional gatekeepers of narratives - the media - have never had more competition to shape what is perceived as truth. In this episode, NLW speaks with Bedrock Capital founder Geoff Lewis about what it means to seek out opportunities in “narrative viola...
BREAKDOWN: The Shadow of Satoshi's Ghost... Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters
May 22, 2020 14:30 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first time since August 2017 that any bitcoin from early 2009 had been transferred, and the action set Bitcoin Twitter on fire. While a number of bitcoin archaeologists quickly and persuasively argued the tokens were almost assuredly not mined by bitcoin creator Satoshi ...
BREAKDOWN: 'Dismantle the Euro to Save Europe' Feat. Tuomas Malinen
May 21, 2020 18:42 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. The European Union and the euro are part of the most ambitious political and economic experiment of the 21st century. The COVID-19 crisis, however, has exacerbated growing questions of political will and political legitimacy and led some to wonder if the eurozone can survive. Tuomas Malinen is the CEO of GnS Economics, a macroeconomic advisory firm, and Adj. Pro...
BREAKDOWN: Why a Strong Dollar Is Bad for the US and Bad for the World, Feat. Lyn Alden
May 20, 2020 18:14 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. The dollar has a unique role in the world due to its reserve currency status. For many years that status has created incredible opportunities for the U.S. Increasingly, however, some are wondering if the global standard has outlived its usefulness - not only for the world but for the U.S., too. In this illuminating conversation, one of FinTwit’s brightest minds, ...
BREAKDOWN: 'Minsky Moments' and the Financial History of Pandemics
May 19, 2020 18:22 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Jamie Catherwood works at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative long-equity investment firm. More importantly, however, he is the finance history guy on Twitter. His “Financial History: Sunday Reads” curation pieces and longer form articles on his site Investor Amnesia have become required reading for anyone who wants the historical context for current fi...
BREAKDOWN: USV's Albert Wenger on the World After Capital
May 18, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “World After Capital” is an evolving digital book project that looks at a set of megatrend shifts as the world moves between economic paradigms from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss: Why attention is at...
BREAKDOWN: Money Reimagined... Where Bitcoin Fits in the New Monetary Order
May 15, 2020 18:15 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Niall Ferguson has called this moment an “age of experimentation” when it comes to currencies. One of the unique features of this moment is the experiments are not limited to the traditional actors. It is not just nation-states trying to elevate their currencies in the face of the global dominance of the dollar, but non-sovereign monies born of decentralized netw...
BREAKDOWN: Surveying the Carnage... Movies, Sports and Education in Crisis
May 14, 2020 17:55 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. This is the second in a series of episodes on how the economic crisis is challenging and transforming different industries. NLW looks at: Movies Direct releases are already making more than box office counterparts AMC is on the verge of bankruptcy (or buyout by Amazon) Production is on hold and even when it resumes, likely to have strict rules on how it is ca...
BREAKDOWN: Why Debt Can’t Buy More Growth, Feat. Jeff Booth
May 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Two powerful and diametrically opposed forces are shaping the economy. On the one hand is inflationary economic policy, which keeps the price of assets like real estate and stocks rising ever higher, but at the expense of savings as the value of currency depreciates. On the other is technology-wrought deflation. As technology increases its capacity exponential...
BREAKDOWN: How We Future Now - Live With Kathleen Breitman, Caitlin Long and More
May 12, 2020 17:31 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. There is a shared sense that the world has shifted. Now begins the messy work of figuring out what it means for the future we’re headed into. This live episode of The Breakdown podcast, recorded during Consensus: Distributed with NLW, features four conversations about how the future is shifting before our very eyes. How We Game and Entertain Now - featuring Ka...
BREAKDOWN: The Great Monetary Inflation... Paul Tudor Jones' Complete Case for Bitcoin
May 11, 2020 18:54 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. Last week, investing legend Paul Tudor Jones rocked the world of crypto and traditional markets with his full throated entrance into the bitcoin market via his latest letter to Tudor BVI investors. While the headlines (and the quick price bump on the back of FOMO buying) were great, the story is even more interesting than the soundbite. In this episode, NLW br...
LTB!: Bitcoin Miners, US Energy Producers and Moores Law
May 10, 2020 12:13 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBAlthough some believe bitcoin mining is a wasteful activity, on today's show we dig into the relative world of constant fuel production, lumpy demand and bitcoin based load balancing. After years of bitcoin mining domination by china-based miners, some US power producers, both professional and incidental, are beginning to get into the game as a way to be more green. It's a narrative reversal if ever we've seen one and if proven successful by the early players could change the bitco...
LEIGH: Scams, Schemes and Crypto Privacy, Feat. Preston Byrne
May 09, 2020 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBCoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by attorney Preston Byrne, a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of Anderson Kill, to talk about fraud and constitutional rights. This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund. “There is really very little difference, at least in the point of origin...whether something is a scam,” Byrne said, regarding inaccurate blogs and representations of software projects. “Take ...