The Empire Strikes Back: Inflation Hits 5% While Elizabeth Warren Goes After Bitcoin
In a week so filled with the optimism coming out of El Salvador, of course there had to be another side of the story. On today’s episode, NLW looks at three examples of the existing power structure ...
11 Jun 202112min
El Salvador Made Bitcoin Legal Tender As President Bukele Casually Chatted on Twitter Spaces
Last night, El Salvador voted to pass the bill making Bitcoin legal tender. As representatives debated the bill, the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele and his brother and campaign manager Karim Bu...
10 Jun 202119min
Biden’s Top Antitrust Adviser Is a Bitcoin Millionaire
On today’s episode, NLW looks at a grab bag of recent news: El Salvador’s bitcoin announcement makes waves as politicians from six more Central and South American countries change their profiles to ...
9 Jun 202111min
El Salvador to Become the First Bitcoin Country: Just How Big a Deal Is This?
On Saturday, the Bitcoin 2021 organizers teased that one of the biggest announcements in bitcoin’s history was coming. That announcement ended up being from El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who sh...
8 Jun 202125min
What a New Era of Big Government Could Mean for Bitcoin
A reading of David Z. Morris’ piece for CoinDesk “Has COVID-19 Made Biden’s Big Spending the New Normal?”. -- Earn up to 12% APY on Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD, EUR, GBP, Stablecoins & more. Get starte...
6 Jun 202112min
Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over?
Today on “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap” NLW looks at a growing number of predictions of a new “crypto winter” as well as some reviews of how companies and DAOs are preparing for that possibility. He s...
5 Jun 20219min
Who Matters More to Bitcoin: Whales or Plebs?
Today on the Brief: May’s middling jobs report A ransomware update Square building a bitcoin hardware wallet Our main discussion looks at the various constituencies within bitcoin and asks who h...
5 Jun 202114min
Chinese State Media Indicates China Is NOT Banning Crypto Trading
Today’s episode looks at crypto in geopolitical context, focusing on: A follow-up on the ransomware surge, with experts suggesting that it’s not about crypto payments but about the “ransomware-as-a-...
4 Jun 202110min
