The Breakdown Weekly Recap | March 7 2020
The full week's episodes in one convenient package The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham What Us Election Outcome Is Best for Bitcoin? Libra Plus? A New G...
7 Maalis 20201h 57min
Riccardo 'Fluffypony' Spagni on How Coronavirus Could Impact Privacy
As the Coronavirus took hold in China, officials in the Hubei province tracked potential patients by examining purchase records for cough and flu medicine for the previous month. Welcome to the new ...
7 Maalis 202031min
Why Bitcoin Mining Might Be the New Business Model for US Power Plants
It was another good day for global crypto, as South Korea votes to formally integrate the industry into the existing financial system, opening the market to new players and potentially improving servi...
6 Maalis 202015min
Libra Plus? A New Global Digital Currency Strategy For Facebook
Yesterday, The Information reported that Facebook’s Calibra wallet would be abandoning the backed-by-a-basket-of-currencies Libra for a set of fiat-backed digital currencies for different regions. The...
5 Maalis 202015min
What Us Election Outcome Is Best for Bitcoin?
Today is Super Tuesday - the biggest day of the US primary election season. Increasingly, prediction markets and pollsters suggest it’s a two person race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (although...
4 Maalis 202024min
The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham
When everyone wrote their 2020 crypto prediction pieces, China featured prominently in everything from the exchange business to enterprise blockchain to the potential impact of a forthcoming digital y...
3 Maalis 202025min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | Feb 29 2020
The full week's episode run in one long-run, long-chill, long-sleep episode: Monday | Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank Tuesday | 6 Explanations for Crypto’s Coronavir...
29 Helmi 20201h 54min
Understanding This Week’s Market Whiplash, Featuring Scott Melker
After weeks of not reacting to Coronavirus, the markets took a profound turn for the worse this week, leading ultimately to the fastest correction - i.e. loss of 10% - in recorded history. In this e...
28 Helmi 202024min
