BREAKDOWN: A Simple Explanation of DeFi and Yield Farming Using Actual Human Words
A primer on yield farming, liquidity mining, automated market making and all the other terms shaping the brave new world of decentralized finance. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com....
22 Heinä 202027min
BREAKDOWN: What's Behind the Fed's New Push to Promote Inflation?
Why the Fed’s strategy on inflation is changing and why the definition used by America’s central bank may be hurting regular people. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. Today on the...
21 Heinä 202016min
BREAKDOWN: What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?
The internet is alive with demos of what the latest artificial intelligence language model can do. Should we be nervous? This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. Today on the Brief: Mast...
20 Heinä 202021min
BREAKDOWN: Are Stablecoins Eurodollars 2.0? Long Reads Sunday
Long Reads Sunday features two essays previously published on CoinDesk that show the trajectory of stablecoins in the global economy in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. On t...
19 Heinä 202014min
RESEARCH: The Origins of the World's Oldest Bitcoin Metric, Explained
Bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was first introduced as a concept back in 2011. At the time, it had only been two years since the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Individuals were a...
19 Heinä 202029min
BREAKDOWN: Social Media Is Democracy's Faultline... The Breakdown Weekly Recap
From PayPal crypto confirmed to action in central bank digital currencies, these were six themes shaping the week. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. On this edition of the Weekly R...
18 Heinä 202010min
BREAKDOWN: What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved. This episode is sponsored ...
17 Heinä 20201h 4min
BREAKDOWN: No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't About Bitcoin
The motivations and implications of a hack that had everyone from Coinbase to Kanye shilling a scam for bitcoin. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com. Today on the Brief: Adjustment ...
16 Heinä 202030min
