The Breakdown Weekly Recap | Jan 11 2020
All 5 episodes of The Breakdown in one long file. By popular demand, this is an experiment to see if it's useful to have the full week's episodes compiled in a single file. I've also summed up what I ...
11 Jan 20201h 14min
China Completes "Top-Level" Digital Currency Design
China’s digital currency project continues to move ahead aggressively, with a new paper from the People’s Bank of China suggesting that a core design is complete. Whatever stage of development the cur...
10 Jan 202016min
Why 2020 Is The Year Of DAOs feat Aragon's Luis Cuende
The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later some other aspects of the web3 movement. In 2019, however, DAOs came roaring back and start 2020 with ...
9 Jan 202020min
Travis Kling on the BTC Bump and Safe Haven Status
The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw the price of BTC both surge and retrace in parallel with crude and gold. To hel...
8 Jan 202016min
How Compliance Costs Could Kill Crypto Innovation
In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries as compared to 2018, which CEO Jesse Powell later revealed cost the exchange more than $1m. Between t...
7 Jan 202017min
What Iran and Instability Mean For Bitcoin
Last week, the US government took out a key Iranian military leader. As the world - and the markets - reacts to the news, some are asking what happens with bitcoin. With global instability on the rise...
6 Jan 202017min
YouTube, Tron and the Pipedream of Decentralized Social Networks
The past few weeks have seen multiple instances of large, centralized tech giants censoring crypto related content and activity. Noticed in the context of the Coinbase Wallet, Apple is pushing back ag...
3 Jan 202012min
Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020
Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage, she argues that the level of discourse in crypto matured in 2019, with more focus ...
1 Jan 202017min
