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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 produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
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The Breakdown
2020-11-21

10 Metrics Where Bitcoin Has Already Hit New All-Time Highs

Earlier this week, investor Nic Carter published a piece called “Nine Bitcoin Charts Already at All-…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-20

A Crypto Ally as Top US Bank Regulator?

Today on the Brief: Markets fight to remain optimistic  Jobless claims rise for the first time in f…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-19

Vijay Boyapati’s Four Mental Models for Valuing Bitcoin

Vijay Boyapati’s “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin” is one of the most influential articles in the histo…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-18

HODL FOMO vs. Speculative FOMO: Why This Bull Market Will Be Different

Today on the Brief: Tesla to join S&P 500 Airbnb files for IPO  The Mooch wants crypto  Our main d…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-17

Bitcoin at $318,000 Next December? One Citibank Exec Says It’s Possible

Today on the Brief:  Moderna trial success drives markets up New all-time high in negative-yielding…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-16

Dollar Decline and the Paralysis of Conventional Monetary Policy

On this week’s edition of Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads former IMF chief and current Harvard economis…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-15

Dalio Says Governments Will Kill Bitcoin. Is He Right?

On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at bitcoin’s surge past $16,000. Additionally, he exp…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-14

PayPal Rolls Out Crypto for All US Customers

Today on the Brief: Christine Lagarde’s digital euro hunch Deutsche Bank CBDC note COVID-19 resurge…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-13

Meet the $10B Asset Manager With a 10,000 BTC Treasury, feat. NYDIG’s Robby Gutmann

Robby Gutmann is the co-founder of Stone Ridge Holdings Group, a $10 billion alternative asset manag…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-12

Discovering Bitcoin Through the #EndSARS Movement, Feat. Yele Bademosi & Akin Sawyerr

Yele Bademosi is CEO at Bundle social payments app and the founder of investment firm microtraction.…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-11

Legendary Investor Stan Druckenmiller Turns Bitcoin Bull

Today on the Brief:  Was Monday’s stock rally overdone?  Lebanon to launch digital currency 3 reaso…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-10

"The Biggest Macro Event Since March”

Today on the Brief:  GRIN gets 51% attacked Crypto trading volume down 25.8% in October  How the ma…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-09

Why Emerging Markets Are Wary of Modern Monetary Theory

Today’s Long Reads Sunday is a reading of Andy Mukherjee’s piece: “Why Emerging Markets Are Wary of …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-08

How a Massive Devaluation of the Egyptian Pound Inspired a $100M Bitcoin ETP

Hany Rashwan is the CEO of Amun/21Shares, the creator of a variety of publicly traded crypto product…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-07

How the World Stopped Producing Enough Money, Feat. Emil Kalinowski

Emil Kalinowski is the host of “Making Sense/Eurodollar University” collaborations with Jeff Snider.…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-06

Bitcoin Hits $15,000: Here Comes the FOMO

As the U.S. election picture starts to become more clear, bitcoin has smashed through $15,000 – its …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-05

‘Economics Will No Longer Be the Handmaiden of Politics’: A History of the Cypherpunks

Jim Epstein is the executive editor of Reason TV and podcasts, and the producer of the recent docume…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-04

A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein

Jacob Goldstein is one of the hosts of NPR’s Planet Money. He is also the author of the new book, “M…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-03

Who Is Better for Bitcoin, Trump or Biden?

Today on the Brief: The digital euro is closer than ever Checking in on European COVID-19 lockdowns…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-02

By the Numbers: More Bitcoin Bulls Than Ever Before

On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW diverts from our normal opinion and long-form essay to pursue …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-31

The World Is Never Getting Off Government Stimulus

On this week’s weekly recap, NLW looks at: Bitcoin’s resilience in the face of a week where many in…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-31

Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper

One of the most powerful aspects of bitcoin is its mythology.  In this episode, NLW explores the 12t…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-30

Mirage Recovery: What ‘Record’ GDP Growth Tells Us About the Economy

Today on the Brief: FTX launches equities trading  Avanti gets Wyoming bank charter France locks do…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-29

The ‘Everything Crash’ Is Coming? Markets Go Risk-Off as European Stocks See Worst Day in 5 Months

Today on the Brief: Section 230 hearing with social media CEOs in Washington D.C. Bitwise now has m…