Two Fed Presidents Resign After Embarrassing Trading Revelations
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW explores traditional financial system actors behaving badly, including why two Fed presidents are retiring early after revelations that they were actively trading stocks ...
29 Sep 202112min
Did China Finally Ban Bitcoin for Real?
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at two major recent stories. Twitter has added bitcoin tipping features. The features take advantage of the Lightning Network powered by Strike and has started ro...
28 Sep 202115min
Is Crypto at a Socio-Regulatory Inflection Point?
This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” returns to the format’s roots with four threads from Twitter: Chris Dixon on tokens as a new web primitive https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1440026947036356619 Raou...
26 Sep 202119min
Weekly Recap: What Happens When S*** Gets Real
On this edition of “The Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at the heightened state of affairs in the crypto landscape, from celebrity interactions with NFTs to the latest bluster from the SEC. This one goes to ...
25 Sep 202114min
Bitcoin Is the Most Illiquid It’s Ever Been: 12 Numbers That Tell the Current Story of Markets
NLW looks at the current state of crypto markets through numbers, including: Bitcoin illiquid supply Lightning Network capacity Evergrande’s debt The total value of CryptoPunks And more Enj...
25 Sep 202116min
The Dreaded Federal Reserve Taper Is Coming
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW examines the upcoming Federal Reserve winding down, or taper, of its support for the markets. This includes scaling back its bond-buying programs, a process that could be...
24 Sep 202113min
Snoop Is Medici? The Mainstream Infiltration Continues
Today on the Brief: BlockFi gets another extension Chainalysis’s secret data honeypot Robinhood crypto finally gets transfers In our main discussion, NLW talks how crypto has mainstreamed over t...
23 Sep 202120min
Did the SEC Really Serve Subpoenas at Mainnet?
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at reports from Messari’s Mainnet conference that the Securities and Exchange Commission served one of the speakers with a subpoena right before a panel. He discuss...
22 Sep 202114min
