BREAKDOWN: Will Big Tech Enable or Destroy Small Business? Feat. Sahil Bloom
More than 50% of COVID-19 related business closures in the US are now permanent. Can tech platforms provide a new avenue for small biz entrepreneurship? This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypt...
23 Jul 202052min
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 Jul 202028min
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 Jul 202017min
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 Jul 202022min
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 Jul 202015min
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 Jul 202030min
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 Jul 202011min
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 Jul 20201h 5min
