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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 202024min
A 101 Guide To Ethereum’s ProgPoW Controversy
Last Friday on Ethereum’s core developer call, the devs agreed to push forward a controversial anti-ASICs consensus algorithm switch known as ProgPoW. The broader Ethereum community was not pleased,...
27 Feb 202025min
Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven or ‘Schmuck Insurance’?
Bitcoin is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. Many are using the dump - which from a timing perspective aligns with a broader market selloff among Coronavirus fears - as a way to dimin...
26 Feb 202019min
6 Explanations for Crypto’s Coronavirus Focus
The spread of Coronavirus has dominated the news cycle across industries, but the discussion has been particularly fierce in both the finance and tech worlds, with crypto right in the lead. For a mo...
25 Feb 202022min
Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank
An incredible amount of work has gone into convincing institutional investors that bitcoin and crypto should be on their radar. Now that many are convinced, however, they face some significant limitat...
24 Feb 202019min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | Feb 22 2020
The full week's episode run in one long-run, long-chill, long-sleep episode: Monday | Off Tuesday | Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi? Wednesday | Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Le...
22 Feb 20201h 23min
