BREAKDOWN: FluffyPony on Encryption, Clearview and 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 f...
6 Mar 202032min
LEIGH: Binance US and Stellar CEOs Debunk Myths for International Women’s Day
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Binance US CEO Catherine Coley and Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon to debunk myths about gender for International Women’s Day. There’s a co...
6 Mar 202030min
BREAKDOWN: 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...
5 Mar 202016min
BREAKDOWN: 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...
4 Mar 202016min
BREAKDOWN: Super Tuesday Special: 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...
3 Mar 202025min
BREAKDOWN: 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...
2 Mar 202026min
LTB!: Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized...
1 Mar 202054min
BREAKDOWN: Understanding This Week's Market Whiplash, Feat. 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 ep...
28 Feb 202025min
