BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on DeFi and the Inevitability of the Digital Yuan
Katherine Wu was a founding team member at Messari before moving into a VC role at Notation Capital, but is perhaps best known in crypto for her epic annotations of key regulatory enforcement actions....
30 Dec 201916min
BREAKDOWN: Camila Russo and David Hoffman on the 2020 DeFi Outlook
Sometimes things are clear, and to both Camila Russo (write of The Defiant newsletter) and David Hoffman (co-host of the Crypto POV podcast), it couldn’t be clearer that the essential narrative of 201...
27 Dec 201924min
BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon
Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily Bitcoin newsletters and co-host of Tales From The Crypt. In this end of year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context - ...
26 Dec 201914min
BREAKDOWN: Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on Fundraising, Halvings, and the Long Steady Slog of Crypto
Rob Paone, aka Crypto Bobby, got his start as a popular crypto YouTuber and has gone on to help build a number of crypto companies before launching his own technical recruitment firm. Preethi Kasiredd...
25 Dec 201922min
BREAKDOWN: Meltem Demirors on Government Digital Currencies and Why ‘The Halvening’ Gets Weird
One of CoinDesk’s ten most influential people of 2019, Melem Demirors is a crypto renaissance woman, known best for investing, operating as CSO of CoinShares, and for explaining ‘shitcoins’ to Congres...
24 Dec 201910min
BREAKDOWN: Peter McCormack On A Defiant New Era For Bitcoin
Peter McCormack is one of the most prominent podcasters in the space. In 2019, he added a new podcast called “Defiance” and focused on the intersection of bitcoin, human rights, and political activism...
23 Dec 201917min
BREAKDOWN: Art Haus Ethereum Meets Bitcoin Financialization
One of the most important (yet somehow quiet) narratives of 2019 has been the financialization of bitcoin and the emergence of a robust market for derivative products. That was reinforced today as Bin...
20 Dec 201914min
BREAKDOWN: Should the Government Have a Say in Where Can Invest?
Accredited investor laws block most of the US out of technology and other types of early stage risk investing, but as the ICO boom showed, not being allowed to do something doesn’t mean that people do...
19 Dec 201921min
