BREAKDOWN: Binance US CEO Catherine Coley Explains Why Crypto Exchanges Are Rushing Into Staking
The competition around staking is heating up, and the latest entrant is Binance.US, who will begin to offer staking on two assets with plans to roll out more in the future. On this episode of The Bre...
29 Jan 202022min
BREAKDOWN: The Future of Crypto FUD
We’re over $9,000! That means a lot of good things, of course. But any price increase brings with it increased scrutiny and, yes, increased FUD. The question for this time around is whether the FUD is...
28 Jan 202022min
DISCUSSION: What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show (Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murphy) gathered to d...
26 Jan 202058min
BREAKDOWN: Davos, CBDCs, and the Rise of Bitcoin Art
That’s a wrap! The World Economic Forum is over, and the key ideas coming out of Davos for our industry are: 1) a continued ‘blockchain, not crypto’ narrative; 2) a believe in the inevitability of cas...
24 Jan 202020min
BREAKDOWN: Will Mass Adoption Be More PayPal or Pornhub?
There is an ongoing debate in the crypto community about where mainstream adoption. One point of view is that it will be the slow steady acceptance of digital assets. On that front, Bakkt president Ad...
23 Jan 202019min
BREAKDOWN: Why High-Profile Defections Aren’t Libra’s Biggest Challenge
News broke yesterday that the Libra Association had seen it’s eighth high-profile defection, this time from the telecom giant Vodafone. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, @nlw argues that Associatio...
22 Jan 202018min
BREAKDOWN: Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Controversy and the Future of Open-Source Funding
Ever since announcing their fourth round of grants, Gitcoin has been a major subject of conversation across the Twittersphere. In addition to all the excited buzz from both technical projects and medi...
21 Jan 202027min
Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of decen...
19 Jan 202041min
