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06.21.2021 BREAKDOWN: The De-Chinafication of Bitcoin People’s Bank of China pushes banks to cut ties to virtual currency traders in latest crypto crackdown.
06.20.2021 BREAKDOWN: Does a Law From the Civil War Make Stablecoins Illegal? A reading from a financial history expert.
06.19.2021 BREAKDOWN: What Are the Prospects for a Bitcoin Standard in Africa? Plus more bitcoin institutional news and a FUD recap on this edition of the Weekly Recap.
06.18.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Shorter Cycle Theory With Larry Cermak "It's either shorter-term bear markets, or it's just going to zero. And I really don't believe it's going to go to zero."
06.17.2021 BREAKDOWN: From a $1T Asset to a $100T Network – Everything We Learned About the Bitcoin Mining Council From Michael Saylor's Twitter Spaces With more than 7,000 listeners, Michael Saylor and many North American miners added color to the initiative.
06.16.2021 BREAKDOWN: Will the Fed Shift Policy Due to Increasing Inflation? More sense of the changes coming ahead of today’s FOMC briefing.
06.15.2021 BREAKDOWN: Will a US Digital Dollar Protect Privacy? A digital dollar hearing today in Congress could provide insight into the future of USD.
06.14.2021 BREAKDOWN: 'Bat-S**t Crazy’ Paul Tudor Jones on the Fed, Inflation and Why He Recommends 5% in Bitcoin The originator of the “Great Monetary Inflation” thesis that helped jumpstart this bull run weighs in on bitcoin and macro.
06.13.2021 BREAKDOWN: Is Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for Freedom? A reading of Alex Gladstein’s recent essay.
06.12.2021 BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Economic Empowerment Driven by El Salvador, a new narrative for global bitcoin adoption is emerging.
06.11.2021 BREAKDOWN: An Interview With Bitcoin Beach, the Community That Inspired El Salvador to Adopt the Bitcoin Standard Featuring Bitcoin Beach’s Mike Peterson.
06.10.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Empire Strikes Back – Inflation Hits 5% While Elizabeth Warren Goes After Bitcoin China shuts down mining and starts censoring crypto exchange terms while U.S. senators and CFTC commissioners attack crypto.
06.09.2021 BREAKDOWN: El Salvador Officially Made Bitcoin Legal Tender as President Bukele Casually Chatted on Twitter Spaces Recapping a historic evening on Twitter Spaces, with the President of El Salvador.
06.08.2021 BREAKDOWN: Biden’s Top Antitrust Adviser Is a Bitcoin Millionaire Why being anti-Big Tech monopoly and pro-bitcoin are clearly compatible ideologies.
06.07.2021 BREAKDOWN: El Salvador Poised to Become the First Bitcoin Country: Just How Big a Deal Is This? A discussion of the implication of El Salvador’s announcement for Salvadorans, bitcoin and the world at large.
06.06.2021 BREAKDOWN: What a New Era of Big Government Could Mean for Bitcoin Does the Biden budget signal a new era of deeper government involvement in American’s lives?
06.05.2021 BREAKDOWN: Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over? After the third-worst month in bitcoin price history, it’s worth asking if the bitcoin bull market is over.
06.04.2021 BREAKDOWN: Who Matters More to Bitcoin – Whales or Plebs? Who is buying? Who is selling? And who is driving the future of the space?
06.03.2021 BREAKDOWN: Chinese State Media Indicates China Is NOT Banning Crypto Trading A series of new reports from state-owned media aren’t kind to crypto trading, but they reinforce that it is still allowed.
06.02.2021 BREAKDOWN: Ransomware Is the Next Big Bitcoin FUD With a rise in ransomware attacks, many are jumping to blame bitcoin and crypto. Are they right?
06.01.2021 BREAKDOWN: More Crypto Regulation Is Likely Coming, but Bans Are Not An exploration of the shifting tones of U.S. regulators around crypto.
05.31.2021 BREAKDOWN: Revisiting Paul Tudor Jones’ ‘Great Monetary Inflation’ Thesis A replay of NLW’s original episode on the topic from May 2020.
05.30.2021 HARD PROBLEMS: Ransomware, Sandboxes and Security American Hacker Jeffrey "Sneak" Paul joins Bram for a deep-dive into the hard problems behind the growing rash of ransomware attacks, what it means and what we can do about it.
05.30.2021 BREAKDOWN: Networks vs. Governments – Could Crypto-Powered Digital Communities Challenge the Power of Cities and States? A reading of Balaji Srinivasan’s essay “The Network Union.”
05.29.2021 BREAKDOWN: Is the ‘Bitcoin Supercycle’ Theory Dead? Given the past few weeks’ price actions, has the popular theory been disproven?
05.28.2021 BREAKDOWN: Cathie Wood on Where Bitcoin Fits in a World With Deflation Rather than Inflation A discussion with the ARK founder on bitcoin, ESG and, of course, Elon Musk.
05.27.2021 BREAKDOWN: ‘Crypto Is Here to Stay’ – Activist Investor Carl Icahn Eyes a Crypto Position in the Billions A look at the macro discussion on inflation and why it’s pushing people like Icahn to crypto.
05.26.2021 BREAKDOWN: What's Really Behind China's Bitcoin Mining Ban? An update on the Bitcoin Mining Council and the China Mining Ban.
05.25.2021 BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Mining Council – A "Green" Advance for BTC or a Trojan Horse for Centralization? The community had extremely mixed reactions to Michael Saylor and Elon Musk’s new initiative.
05.24.2021 BREAKDOWN: Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio Has Officially Bought Bitcoin A big shift from one of finance’s biggest names, plus a recap on the latest China-Bitcoin intrigue.
05.23.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Unexplored Risks of a US Digital Dollar A reading of two recent essays on central bank digital currencies.
05.22.2021 BREAKDOWN: Why the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein Says Governments Can't Stop Crypto One of Capitol Hill’s most connected insiders says crypto is here to stay.
05.21.2021 BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoiners Are Rooting for This Latest China Mining Ban to Finally, Actually Be Real Could new pressure from the CCP remove coal-powered hash power from the bitcoin mix?
05.20.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Real Story of the Crypto Crash Has Very Little to Do With Elon or China It wasn’t narrative but market structure that drove yesterday’s big move down.
05.19.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Bloodbath-ening – Is This the End of the Crypto Bull Market? In a sea of red, investors ask whether this is just a bull market pullback or represents a more fundamental bearish turn.
05.19.2021 OPINIONATED: QuadrigaCX – An Exit Scam or Just a Crypto Tragedy “Opinionated” co-hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson interview Aaron Lammer, Host of "Exit Scam" podcast about the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX and the sudden death of its CEO Gerald Cotten.
05.18.2021 BREAKDOWN: No, China Didn’t Just Ban Crypto Despite inflammatory headlines, today’s note from the People’s Bank of China was a reaffirmation of central bank policy from 2017.
05.17.2021 BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is the ‘No Heroes’ Asset Bitcoin Twitter’s latest skirmish with Elon Musk has as much to say about the nature of power in a social media landscape as it does about bitcoin.
05.16.2021 HARD PROBLEMS: Inside Bram Cohen's Proof-of-Work Reinvention Join BitTorrent inventor and Chia CEO Bram Cohen and guests for a lively discussion of Bram's newly launched vision of distributed, proof of work consensus known as Proofs of Space and Time.
05.16.2021 BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Much More Than a Speculative Asset Stories from Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia show how bitcoin is being used in the real world.
05.15.2021 BREAKDOWN: Vitalik vs. Dog Money – Recapping a Crazy Week in Crypto History From Elon’s shenanigans to Vitalik’s SHIB rug pull, this was one for the history books.
05.14.2021 BREAKDOWN: Why the DOJ, IRS Investigation Into Binance Could Be Good for Bitcoin In almost any scenario, the industry faces one less category of FUD on the other side of the investigations.
05.13.2021 BREAKDOWN: Et tu, Elon? What’s Really Behind Tesla’s Bitcoin Betrayal Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin due to environmental concerns – or so it says.
05.12.2021 BREAKDOWN: 46M Americans Now Own Bitcoin as Inflation Rises to Highest Level in 13 Years Do rising inflation and rising levels of bitcoin ownership have anything to do with one another?
05.11.2021 BREAKDOWN: Crypto to Replace Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency? Investing Legend Stanley Druckenmiller Thinks So The argument that the dollar is losing prestige worldwide got a major boost from a legendary investor.
05.10.2021 BREAKDOWN: If Prices Keep Going Up, We Might Have to Start Calling It Inflation Every day sees new reports of prices going up – from commodities to plastic to fruit. Are we ready to use the “I” word?
05.09.2021 BREAKDOWN: CBDCs Aren't About Money, They're About Power A China-focused discussion on this week’s “Long Reads Sunday.”
05.08.2021 BREAKDOWN: 'My 401(k) is now my 401(k9)' – What Happens to Doge After Elon Hosts ‘SNL’? While everyone was paying attention to Dog Money, bitcoin was quietly accumulating institutional news.
05.07.2021 BREAKDOWN: The Balkanization of Bitcoin – The Next Attack on BTC Is About Mining Provenance From Iran miner control to “OFAC compliant blocks,” a new attack vector has emerged.
05.06.2021 BREAKDOWN: Are Banks Getting Nervous About Competition From DeFi? A new research paper from ING suggests that, at the very least, they’re paying more attention.

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BREAKDOWN: The De-Chinafication of Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: Does a Law From the Civil War Make Stablecoins Illegal?

BREAKDOWN: What Are the Prospects for a Bitcoin Standard in Africa?

BREAKDOWN: The Shorter Cycle Theory With Larry Cermak

BREAKDOWN: From a $1T Asset to a $100T Network – Everything We Learned About the Bitcoin Mining Council From Michael Saylor's Twitter Spaces

BREAKDOWN: Will the Fed Shift Policy Due to Increasing Inflation?

BREAKDOWN: Will a US Digital Dollar Protect Privacy?

BREAKDOWN: 'Bat-S**t Crazy’ Paul Tudor Jones on the Fed, Inflation and Why He Recommends 5% in Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: Is Bitcoin a Trojan Horse for Freedom?

BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Economic Empowerment

BREAKDOWN: An Interview With Bitcoin Beach, the Community That Inspired El Salvador to Adopt the Bitcoin Standard

BREAKDOWN: The Empire Strikes Back – Inflation Hits 5% While Elizabeth Warren Goes After Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: El Salvador Officially Made Bitcoin Legal Tender as President Bukele Casually Chatted on Twitter Spaces

BREAKDOWN: Biden’s Top Antitrust Adviser Is a Bitcoin Millionaire

BREAKDOWN: El Salvador Poised to Become the First Bitcoin Country: Just How Big a Deal Is This?

BREAKDOWN: What a New Era of Big Government Could Mean for Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over?

BREAKDOWN: Who Matters More to Bitcoin – Whales or Plebs?

BREAKDOWN: Chinese State Media Indicates China Is NOT Banning Crypto Trading

BREAKDOWN: Ransomware Is the Next Big Bitcoin FUD

BREAKDOWN: More Crypto Regulation Is Likely Coming, but Bans Are Not

BREAKDOWN: Revisiting Paul Tudor Jones’ ‘Great Monetary Inflation’ Thesis

HARD PROBLEMS: Ransomware, Sandboxes and Security

BREAKDOWN: Networks vs. Governments – Could Crypto-Powered Digital Communities Challenge the Power of Cities and States?

BREAKDOWN: Is the ‘Bitcoin Supercycle’ Theory Dead?

BREAKDOWN: Cathie Wood on Where Bitcoin Fits in a World With Deflation Rather than Inflation

BREAKDOWN: ‘Crypto Is Here to Stay’ – Activist Investor Carl Icahn Eyes a Crypto Position in the Billions

BREAKDOWN: What's Really Behind China's Bitcoin Mining Ban?

BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Mining Council – A "Green" Advance for BTC or a Trojan Horse for Centralization?

BREAKDOWN: Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio Has Officially Bought Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: The Unexplored Risks of a US Digital Dollar

BREAKDOWN: Why the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein Says Governments Can't Stop Crypto

BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoiners Are Rooting for This Latest China Mining Ban to Finally, Actually Be Real

BREAKDOWN: The Real Story of the Crypto Crash Has Very Little to Do With Elon or China

BREAKDOWN: The Bloodbath-ening – Is This the End of the Crypto Bull Market?

OPINIONATED: QuadrigaCX – An Exit Scam or Just a Crypto Tragedy

BREAKDOWN: No, China Didn’t Just Ban Crypto

BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is the ‘No Heroes’ Asset

HARD PROBLEMS: Inside Bram Cohen's Proof-of-Work Reinvention

BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Much More Than a Speculative Asset

BREAKDOWN: Vitalik vs. Dog Money – Recapping a Crazy Week in Crypto History

BREAKDOWN: Why the DOJ, IRS Investigation Into Binance Could Be Good for Bitcoin

BREAKDOWN: Et tu, Elon? What’s Really Behind Tesla’s Bitcoin Betrayal

BREAKDOWN: 46M Americans Now Own Bitcoin as Inflation Rises to Highest Level in 13 Years

BREAKDOWN: Crypto to Replace Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency? Investing Legend Stanley Druckenmiller Thinks So

BREAKDOWN: If Prices Keep Going Up, We Might Have to Start Calling It Inflation

BREAKDOWN: CBDCs Aren't About Money, They're About Power

BREAKDOWN: 'My 401(k) is now my 401(k9)' – What Happens to Doge After Elon Hosts ‘SNL’?

BREAKDOWN: The Balkanization of Bitcoin – The Next Attack on BTC Is About Mining Provenance

BREAKDOWN: Are Banks Getting Nervous About Competition From DeFi?

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