Bitcoin Is Economic Empowerment
On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at: Why the El Salvador news didn’t (immediately) impact bitcoin’s price How narratives set the tone for new entrants to the bitcoin mar...
12 Juni 202116min
An Interview With Bitcoin Beach, the Community That Inspired El Salvador to Adopt the Bitcoin Standard
On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Mike Peterson, director of Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach is a community project in El Salvador that has spent the last two years helping individuals and companies i...
12 Juni 202142min
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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 20219min
