Why $20,000 Bitcoin Matters
After weeks of flirting with all-time highs, bitcoin has broken through the most significant psychological barrier: $20,000. In today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at why the moment is so si...
16 Des 202013min
Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein
Ben Hunt is the founder of Second Foundation Partners and lead author of Epsilon Theory. Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation. In this conversation, they discu...
16 Des 20201h 21min
JPMorgan Discusses $600B in Potential New Bitcoin Demand
Today on the Brief: First COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the U.S. Are IPOs the new ICOs? U.S. Treasury and other federal departments hacked Our main discussion: A massive new category of bitcoi...
15 Des 202014min
How Much Debt Can a Country Handle?
This week’s edition of Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “How Much Debt Is Too Much?” by Raghuram Rajan on Project Syndicate. In it, the author explores the shifting conventional wisdom on national d...
13 Des 202011min
The Bitcoin Banking Battle Heats Up
On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at the brewing battle to be the bitcoin and crypto bank of the future. He looks at three stories reporting banks getting into crypto (BBVA, Standard Char...
12 Des 202010min
Why a Massive 169-Year-Old Insurance Company Just Bought $100M in Bitcoin
Today on the Brief: FDA panel recommends Pfizer vaccine approval as initial jobless claims soar Antitrust lawsuit calls for Facebook breakup Crypto-friendly CFTC chairman to resign at the beginnin...
12 Des 202014min
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on a Bitcoin ETF, Custody Rules and What's Next for the SEC
Hester Peirce is a commissioner at the Securities Exchange Commission, sworn in for her second term in August. Sometimes referred to as “Crypto Mom,” Peirce has been a fierce advocate for the indust...
11 Des 202020min
The Most Important Trends and People Shaping Crypto 2020, With Ryan Selkis
What were the most important trends? Who were the most important people? Was it the year of Bitcoin Macro, the year of DeFi or both? Ryan Selkis is the founder and CEO of Messari. Each year he puts t...
10 Des 20201h 2min
