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The Breakdown

A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is part of The Breakdown Network.

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How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan

How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan

“Some countries just aren’t going to emerge from the Coronavirus.” Peter Zeihan is one of the world’s foremost geopoliti... Read more

1 Apr 2020

50mins

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The History of the Dollar System From Bretton Woods to QE Infinity, Feat. Luke Gromen

The History of the Dollar System From Bretton Woods to QE Infinity, Feat. Luke Gromen

QE infinity. Corporate bailouts. Nudging UBI. The incredible economic phenomena going on now didn’t happen out of the bl... Read more

22 Apr 2020

1hr 16mins

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Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven or ‘Schmuck Insurance’?

Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven or ‘Schmuck Insurance’?

Bitcoin is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. Many are using the dump - which from a timing perspective ... Read more

26 Feb 2020

19mins

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What's behind the BTC price crash? / Does WeWork matter for crypto? / Incognito mode for payments

What's behind the BTC price crash? / Does WeWork matter for crypto? / Incognito mode for payments

Bitcoin (and the rest of the markets) absolutely cratered yesterday, with BTC dropping from nearly $10k to under $8k bef... Read more

25 Sep 2019

20mins

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Kraken’s Dan Held on What’s Different About Bitcoin At $10k This Time

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 to... Read more

7 Feb 2020

25mins

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Narrative Watch: The Game of Coins & The Battle Over The Global Reserve Currency

Narrative Watch: The Game of Coins & The Battle Over The Global Reserve Currency

In the game of coins, you [replace the USD as the world's reserve currency or at least shore up your sovereign currency'... Read more

26 Aug 2019

13mins

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Stablecoin battles / Trade Wars & Safe Havens / Berlin Blockchain Recap

Stablecoin battles / Trade Wars & Safe Havens / Berlin Blockchain Recap

Libra Association on the verge of losing members? That's the report from FT as members get spooked by EU antitrust proce... Read more

23 Aug 2019

17mins

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Bitcoin Soars on China President Xi's Blockchain Comments

Bitcoin Soars on China President Xi's Blockchain Comments

On Wednesday, Zuckerberg responded to the largely hostile US Congress by reminding them that, if the US didn't proactive... Read more

26 Oct 2019

16mins

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SPECIAL EDITION: An Opinionated Recap Of Zuckerberg's Libra Testimony Before Congress

SPECIAL EDITION: An Opinionated Recap Of Zuckerberg's Libra Testimony Before Congress

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress today, nominally about Libra but actually about a lot of things. ... Read more

23 Oct 2019

27mins

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Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank

Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank

An incredible amount of work has gone into convincing institutional investors that bitcoin and crypto should be on their... Read more

24 Feb 2020

19mins

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Narrative Watch: The Tokenization Saga Continues

Narrative Watch: The Tokenization Saga Continues

Three stories about tokenization today: ShapeShift launching FOX (an exchange token); BlockTV launching a token for medi... Read more

20 Nov 2019

26mins

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Bakkt launch flop or fly? / Kik kicks the bucket, Kin lives on / SEC testifies before Congress

Bakkt launch flop or fly? / Kik kicks the bucket, Kin lives on / SEC testifies before Congress

Much hyped Bakkt has launched, but the volume is...less than massive. What should we think about it? Is it a sign of fai... Read more

24 Sep 2019

23mins

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Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge

Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge

Bitcoin is up more than 8% in the last 24 hours. BSV, meanwhile, is up nearly a whopping 100%. The question is, of cours... Read more

14 Jan 2020

18mins

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Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Corona Crisis, Feat. Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko

Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Corona Crisis, Feat. Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko

Mark Yusko is the founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and @NLW discuss:  ... Read more

24 Mar 2020

1hr 3mins

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Why 2020 Is The Year Of DAOs feat Aragon's Luis Cuende

Why 2020 Is The Year Of DAOs feat Aragon's Luis Cuende

The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later some other aspects of ... Read more

9 Jan 2020

20mins

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Fed cuts & repo / Binance.US's BNB surprise / Bitcoin ETF withdrawn

Fed cuts & repo / Binance.US's BNB surprise / Bitcoin ETF withdrawn

The FED has pumped the equivalent of half of Bitcoin's market cap into the markets over the last couple days in what som... Read more

18 Sep 2019

21mins

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The Top Narratives Driving Crypto Market Growth feat. Travis Kling

The Top Narratives Driving Crypto Market Growth feat. Travis Kling

There’s no denying that 2020 is off to a roaring start. From prices to volume to social media, sentiment is up up up.  B... Read more

14 Feb 2020

18mins

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Crypto Daily 3@3 - 7.31 | What Fed rate cuts mean for BTC / IEO performance / Funding/M&A Roundup

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 7.31 | What Fed rate cuts mean for BTC / IEO performance / Funding/M&A Roundup

The Fed cut interest rates today for the first time in Bitcoin's life. This move is interesting directly because lower r... Read more

1 Aug 2019

13mins

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Travis Kling on the BTC Bump and Safe Haven Status

Travis Kling on the BTC Bump and Safe Haven Status

The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw... Read more

8 Jan 2020

16mins

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Crypto Daily 3@3 - 7.29 | Lightning Network vs. surveillance / US Congress response to de-Americanization / Paradigm shifts

Crypto Daily 3@3 - 7.29 | Lightning Network vs. surveillance / US Congress response to de-Americanization / Paradigm shifts

Weekly countdown of the 5 most important essays and threads from the week before on Long Reads Sunday. This week featuri... Read more

29 Jul 2019

19mins

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