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April 05, 2021BREAKDOWN: How Will the Coinbase IPO Affect Bitcoin's Price?
Will the seminal event drive new people to the crypto markets or suck liquidity away from crypto assets?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
Today on the Brief:
The 88th anniversary of Executive Order 6102
Former SEC Jay Clayton on bitcoin regulations
GBTC intends to become an ETF

Our main discussion:
NLW breaks down the potential implications of the Coinbase IPO. He looks at the bullish arguments of mainstream presence, the potential to send people down a bitcoin rabbit hole and the provisioning of easy on-ramps versus the argument that it will give people a chance to get crypto industry exposure without actually holding bitcoin or other crypto assets.

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18 min
April 04, 2021 BREAKDOWN: The Future of Bitcoin and Crypto Is in Renegades and Malcontents
A reading of Brady Dale’s “Don’t Follow the Suits, Follow the Weirdos.”
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads CoinDesk journalist Brady Dale’s “Don’t Follow the Suits, Follow the Weirdos.” NLW argues this topic is even more important in the context of bitcoin institutionalization.

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10 min
April 03, 2021BREAKDOWN: For Bitcoin and Crypto, a Week of Mainstreaming Moments
From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On this edition of “The Breakdown” Weekly Recap, NLW looks at a set of mainstream moments including:
“SNL” doing a song about NFTs
Visa accepting USDC on Ethereum as a native settlement currency
PayPal opening crypto checkout to 29 million merchants
Goldman Sachs opening bitcoin investment programs
Chipotle’s “bitcoin and burritos” promotion

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10 min
April 02, 2021BREAKDOWN: An Interview With Cathie Wood on Bitcoin, Tesla and Innovation Investing
This episode is a replay of NLW’s conversation with Cathie Wood from October 2020. In it, they discuss:
Why she had conviction in Tesla before the market caught up
Why her fund offered the first bitcoin investment opportunities to Wall Street
Why it doesn’t hire traditional Wall Street analysts
Why it gives away all research for free
Why it shares the trades made in a completely open-source way
ARK’s recent Bitcoin Investment Thesis white paper
What the prospects are for innovation in 2021
Find our guest online:
Twitter: @CathieDWood
Web: ark-invest.com

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1 hr 20 min
April 01, 2021BREAKDOWN: Corruption, Leverage and Cheap Money – Archegos and the Fastest Loss of Wealth in History
A TL;DR on how Archegos went from betting $50B or more to having nothing overnight.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
The financial world has been rocked by the Archegos scandal. A family office managing at least $10 billion and betting with $50 billion-$80 billion on leverage that was completely undone, literally overnight.

In this episode, NLW breaks down:
Bill Hwang’s origins in Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management
Hwang’s conviction for insider trading
How Hwang leveraged his fund’s performance to get off prime broker blacklists
Why Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others decided to margin call Archegos last week
What the whole affair says about markets today

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19 min
March 31, 2021 BREAKDOWN: Have Fun Staying Rich – Goldman to Offer Bitcoin to Wealthy Clients, Completely Reversing Course
Less than a year after it proclaimed cryptocurrencies are “not an asset class,” Goldman is launching a set of bitcoin and crypto products.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.
As the old saying goes: “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Ten months ago, Goldman Sachs declared that “cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not an asset class.” Today, CNBC broke the news Goldman is planning to release a full suite of bitcoin and crypto investment products.
On this episode, NLW breaks down the larger macro context that got us from then to now and explains why, if you’re a wealthy client of Goldman, you might have some big questions to ask.

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15 min
March 30, 2021BREAKDOWN: PayPal Opens Crypto Payments for Millions of Merchants
The old canard that you can’t buy coffee with bitcoin is less true than ever as PayPal rolls out crypto checkout for 29 million merchants.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.
Today on the Brief:
BTC micro futures coming to CME
Michael Jordan is now an NFT investor
Bitcoin doesn’t care about Treasury yields
Our main discussion: PayPal has begun rolling out its crypto checkout tools to millions of merchants. NLW breaks down:
Why payments for day-to-day items have been historically deprioritized for Bitcoin and Ethereum
Why the PayPal checkout tools are unlikely to shift the primary use case from store of value style functions to medium of exchange
Why the liquidity and utility PayPal crypto checkout creates still adds significant value to these crypto assets

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Nexo.io lets you borrow against your crypto at 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% on your idle assets, and exchange instantly between 75+ market pairs with the tap of a button. Get started at nexo.io.
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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.
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17 min
March 29, 2021BREAKDOWN: Visa Just Supercharged Stablecoin Legitimacy
Visa officially enables USDC as a native currency and means of settlement.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.
Today’s episode of “The Breakdown” is an extended brief with five different topics:
NFTs make it to “SNL”
“Green” bitcoin mining
Square’s CFO thinks all companies should hold bitcoin in their treasuries
Crypto M&A doubles in 2020
Visa announces USDC as settlement currency

Ultimately, NLW argues that while non-fungible tokens are showing up in pop culture, the Visa deal reinforces the notion that this crypto bull market is being driven by large-scale institutional engagement.

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Nexo.io lets you borrow against your crypto at 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% on your idle assets, and exchange instantly between 75+ market pairs with the tap of a button. Get started at nexo.io.
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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.
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16 min
March 28, 2021 BREAKDOWN: Can Crypto Create Cultural Revolutions?
A reading of David Hoffman’s recent essay “The Digital Cultural Revolution.”
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Hoffman’s essay “The Digital Cultural Revolution” from Bankless. The essay argues that culture, more than economics, will be the most important long-term beneficiary of the rise of crypto.

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Nexo.io lets you borrow against your crypto at 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% on your idle assets, and exchange instantly between 75+ market pairs with the tap of a button. Get started at nexo.io.
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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.
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Exodus empowers people to control their wealth through a safe and reliable non-custodial crypto wallet, placing the ownership of digital assets back into the user’s hands. Your keys, your crypto. Download Exodus today and learn more at exodus.com.
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31 min
March 27, 2021BREAKDOWN: Soros Breaks Into Bitcoin
Recent investments and a TV appearance this week start to show how the legendary investor’s crypto strategy is shaping up.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.
On this week’s Weekly Recap, NLW:
Highlights the four most important happenings around regulation and central bank digital currencies in the U.S.
Updates the macro inflation narrative for a “new normal” era
Digs into what we’ve learned recently about George Soros’ bitcoin and crypto strategy

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Nexo.io lets you borrow against your crypto at 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% on your idle assets, and exchange instantly between 75+ market pairs with the tap of a button. Get started at nexo.io.
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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.
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Exodus empowers people to control their wealth through a safe and reliable non-custodial crypto wallet, placing the ownership of digital assets back into the user’s hands. Your keys, your crypto. Download Exodus today and learn more at exodus.com.
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15 min