Ben Hunt on the Clash of Narratives in the Age of Coronavirus
The week of February 12, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reaching new all time highs. Meanwhile, China’s quarantine of the 11 million people in Wuhan was three weeks old and expanding to other pa...
11 Mar 202058min
Crypto Fundraising and the Nothing-Is-Safe Haven
Whatever you thought of the uncorrelated or safe haven narratives a few weeks ago, it’s hard to deny that bitcoin and crypto are moving in lock step with equities - even mirroring a small bounce in th...
10 Mar 202014min
What the Market Crash Means for Bitcoin, Feat. Delphi's Kevin Kelly
Bitcoin’s price has cratered, but it’s nothing compared to the broader market havoc. From the Coronavirus scare to an oil price war, a confluence of factors is aligning to make it a very rough Monday....
9 Mar 202033min
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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 202024min
