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Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-08-06Meta's NFT Push, and India Gov't Probing Crypto Exchange WazirX Over Alleged Money Laundering2022-08-05Coinbase Shares Soar Amid BlackRock Partnership News, and Robinhood CEO Shuts Down FTX Merger Chatter2022-08-04Facebook Bets Big on the Creator Economy While Robinhood Cuts Workforce by Nearly a Quarter2022-08-03NFT Platform Magic Eden Expands and Nomad Bridge Exploit2022-08-02Tiffany Unveils $50K CryptoPunk Necklace, and OneOf Adds American Express as New Backer2022-08-01Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-07-30Babel Finance Reportedly Lost $280M Trading Customer Funds, and KuCoin to Offer NFT ETFs2022-07-29Bitcoin Tops $23K Amid US Recession and Facebook Parent Meta Loses $2.8B on Metaverse Division in Q22022-07-28Ethereum’s Mainnet Shadow Fork 10 Goes Live, and Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Offloads 1.4M Coinbase Shares2022-07-27Coinbase Shares Fall Amid Reported SEC Probe, and Chipotle Pushes Into Crypto Space2022-07-26Bitcoin Drops as Markets Await Another Fed Rate Hike, and a Twitter Data Breach2022-07-25Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-07-23Crypto Fund Three Arrows Capital Founders Break Their Silence and Lender Nexo Faces Declining Deposits2022-07-22Ex-Coinbase Manager Among 3 Arrested on Crypto Insider Trading Charges; Tesla Sells 75% of Its Bitcoin2022-07-217 Korean Exchanges Reportedly Raided Amid Terra Probe and a Startup Uses AI to Authenticate NFTs2022-07-20Report Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Concerns at Crypto Lender Celsius and Dubai Unveils Metaverse Strategy2022-07-19What's Next for Celsius Customers; Crypto VC Investments Drop 26% in First Half of 20222022-07-18Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-07-16Celsius Network Reportedly Owed $439M by Lending Firm EquitiesFirst, 'South Park' Movie Mocks Celebrity Crypto Endorsement2022-07-15Celsius Network CEO Says Bankruptcy Filing 'the Right Decision' and Polygon Joins Disney’s Accelerator Program2022-07-14Charlie Munger Calls Crypto an ‘Investment in Nothing,’ and Tony Hawk Enters the Metaverse2022-07-13Three Arrows Creditors Get Emergency Hearing and GameStop's NFT Marketplace Goes Live2022-07-12Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks Face Backlash Over Voyager Digital Partnership2022-07-11Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-07-09US June Employment Report Exceeded Expectation, Another Crypto Exchange Hit by 3AC Exposure2022-07-08US Bans Crypto Holders From Writing Government Policies2022-07-07CoinDesk Special: 2 Chainz on Music and NFTs2022-07-07Voyager Digital Faces Delisting From Toronto Stock Exchange; Polygon to Launch its Web3 Smartphone2022-07-06Re-Hash: The 3AC Saga2022-07-05Hash Headlines: Top Stories of the Week2022-07-01Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses and Three Arrows Capital’s Troubles Deepen2022-06-30Troubles at Compass Mining and Citi Flags Crypto-Backed Real Estate Mortgages2022-06-29Compass Mining Seen Losing Maine Facility After Failing to Pay Power Bill2022-06-28Voyager Digital Issues Default Notice to Three Arrows Capital, More Short Sellers Betting Against Tether2022-06-27A New Chapter of Web3: Solana Unveils Smartphone ‘Saga’; Moody’s Downgrades Coinbase2022-06-24Consensus Conversations 2022: Wrap Up2022-06-24Voyager Digital’s Liquidity Crisis, and Binance Signs NFT Partnership With Football Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo2022-06-23Tech Giants Set Standards for the Metaverse, Michael Saylor Calls for Regulations to Halt ‘Parade of Horribles’2022-06-22Cookies, Cash, Data and Doubts2022-06-22BlockFi Receives $250M Credit Facility From FTX, and Elon Musk Doubles Down on Dogecoin2022-06-21Tron’s TRX Jumps as DAO Deploys $220M for Token Purchase; Investors Pull Out $1.6B From Tether’s Stablecoin2022-06-16Smart Glasses and Bored Apes: The Many Deaths of NFTs2022-06-16Binance, Kraken Stick to Hiring Plans, Bill Gates Says NFTs Are ‘Based on Greater Fool’ Theory2022-06-15Crypto Winter: Coinbase Latest Company to Cut Jobs, Following BlockFi and Crypto.com2022-06-14Consensus Conversations 2022: Day 2 at ACC2022-06-12Consensus Conversations 2022: Day 1 at ACC2022-06-11Jay-Z, Jack Dorsey Unveil ‘Bitcoin Academy,’ and Seth Green Buys Back Stolen Bored Ape2022-06-11Terraform Labs Loses US Appeal Over SEC Subpoena and ApeCoin Community Votes to Stay on Ethereum2022-06-10Moments Away: Ethereum’s Testnet to Transition to Proof-of-Stake, and Citibank Says Market Volatility Has Spooked User Adoption2022-06-08PayPal Expands Crypto Push, and New Research Unearths Insights Into Bitcoin’s Early Days2022-06-07‘Move-to-Earn’ App Stepn Suffers Cyber Attack and Elon Musk Threatens to Call Off Twitter Deal2022-06-06Crypto Layoffs Gain Steam as Tesla Reportedly to Cut Jobs2022-06-04Ex-OpenSea Staffer Charged in First NFT Insider Trading Case and Chipotle Taps Flexa for Crypto Payments2022-06-02Elon Musk Tells Tesla Staff Remote Work ‘No Longer Acceptable,’ and Binance Labs Doubling Down on Web 3 Investments2022-06-01MiamiCoin Down 95% From Its Peak and Free-to-Mint NFT Collection Goblintown Capturing Millions in Sales2022-05-31A Second Chance: New Terra Blockchain to Launch Saturday, Tether’s USDT Now Live on Polygon2022-05-27Circle Recommends Against a Digital Dollar, and Ethereum Beacon Chain Suffers Longest ‘Reorg’ in Years2022-05-26A16z Doubles Down on Crypto Investments Despite Market Downturn, and NFL Launches Play-to-Earn NFT Game2022-05-25Coinbase Becomes First Crypto Firm to Enter Fortune 500 List and the Latest from Davos2022-05-24Crypto Crime, Whiskey and Always Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom2022-05-24GameStop Unveils Crypto Wallet, Beeple’s Twitter Account Latest to Fall to Phishing Scam Hack and More2022-05-24San Francisco NFL Player Alex Barrett Taking His Salary in Bitcoin2022-05-21FTX US Debuts Stock Trading, Ethereum on Track to Merge in June2022-05-19LimeWire Signs Deal With Universal Music for Music NFT Licensing, Blockchain Gaming in Focus2022-05-18The Rosetta Stone of Passwords, Return to the ‘Fappening’2022-05-18Musk Sets New Condition for Twitter, Citi Says Terra’s Fallout Unlikely to Hit Wider Financial System2022-05-17Morgan Stanley Warns NFTs Next to Watch After UST Collapse; Bukele Announces Bank Meeting in El Salvador2022-05-16Will Elon Musk Still Buy Twitter? And Robinhood Gets a Big New Crypto Shareholder2022-05-14Crypto Markets Pressure Continues as Terra Proposes a Fix for UST Slide2022-05-12Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s History Behind Another Failed Stablecoin2022-05-11Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Bet Under Pressure and the Ripple Effects of UST Stablecoin Collapse2022-05-10When the Referees Play Favorites (Part 2)2022-05-10Mark Zuckerberg Testing NFTs on Instagram; What Impact Will Crypto Markets Slide Have on Coinbase?2022-05-09How a Typo Cost $36M in JUNO Tokens, US Adds More North Korea-Linked Wallets Addresses to Sanction List2022-05-06Binance, Sequoia Revealed as Investors Backing Musk’s Twitter Takeover2022-05-05APE Rises and Falls as Musk Teases Twitter Profile Picture Change2022-05-04Wall St. Trading Firm Jane Street Dives Into DeFi, SEC to Ramp Up Anti-Crypto Scam Efforts2022-05-03BAYC Virtual Land Sale Tops $285M With Investors Spending Over $176M in Gas Fees Alone2022-05-02Choking on Our Aspirations2022-04-30Ukraine Launches Website for NFT Donations and More2022-04-29The US Economy Shrinks for the 1st Time Since Early in Pandemic2022-04-28Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender, Ethereum Foundation’s Non-Crypto Investments and More2022-04-27What’s Behind Twitter’s Decision to Accept Musk’s Buyout Offer? Next Moves for Moonbirds NFTs After Exec’s Departure2022-04-26When the Referees Play Favorites (Part 1)2022-04-26Dogecoin Surging as Elon Musk and Twitter Nearing Deal; Binance Denies Allegation Over Russian Data2022-04-25NBA Top Shot Whale Launches NFT Lending Platform, Stripe Taps Polygon to Allow Customers to Make Payments in USDC2022-04-22Coinbase Launches Its Own NFT Marketplace, MakerDAO Inching Closer to Multi-Chain2022-04-20The Rise of Algorithmic Stablecoins, Moonbirds NFTs Debut a Smashing Success and More2022-04-19Three Rules to Remember After Mailchimp Breach2022-04-19North Korea’s ‘Lazarus’ Hackers Are Tied to the Biggest DeFi Hack in History; Louis Vuitton to Release New NFTs2022-04-18‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Landed at $280 to Top Bidder, Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover and More2022-04-14Ethereum Merge No Longer Expected in June, BTC’s 4-Year Halving Cycle May Be Dead and More2022-04-13What Record-High Inflation Means for Crypto, Bored Apes Going Hollywood and More2022-04-12The Check Engine Light and the Space Shuttle2022-04-12Musk’s Latest SEC Filing Could Offer Clues to Why He Backed Out of Twitter Board2022-04-11New Lessons From the Island of Stone Bitcoins2022-03-28When More Is Less2022-03-15Rights Versus Privileges in a Global Financial System2022-03-07The Story Behind AssangeDAO2022-02-28A Brief Look at Bitcoin Maximalism2022-02-13The Ups and Downs of Crypto Loans2022-02-01First Practices Aren’t Best Practices2022-01-23Bitcoin Security and a Rogue Power Plant2022-01-17The Endowment Effect, HODLing and the Impossible Self-Appraisal2022-01-09Can Stablecoins Survive?2021-12-22The Jokes Wear Thin as Inflation Becomes Normal2021-12-19Exploring Bitcoin’s Lightning Network2021-12-05Big Gaming Signals NFTs Are Closer to Mainstream2021-11-28How Far We’ve Come (and How Much Stayed the Same)2021-11-14If Facebook Can’t Run a Global Currency, Who Could?2021-11-07Why Is the IMF Afraid of Cryptoization?2021-10-24The Sure Thing, the Force Multiplier and the Underdoge2021-10-16A Brief History of Bitcoin Tipping (and Where Twitter Fits in It)2021-10-09Exit, Voice and Bitcoin2021-10-02Life on Bitcoin (2021 Edition)2021-09-25On National Adoption of Bitcoin2021-09-11Is Axie Infinity’s Play-to-Earn Economic Empowerment or Exploitation?2021-09-04Ethereum, Bitcoin; Hard Fork, Soft Fork: How Decentralized Change Is Made2021-08-21The Expert Incentive, or ‘God Save the King of Kong'2021-08-14Stoner Cats Chaos and the Mainstreaming of NFTs2021-08-07Digging Into El Salvador's Bitcoin Bill2021-07-31Building Systems We Don’t Understand2021-07-24El Salvador Poised to Become the First Bitcoin Country: Just How Big a Deal Is This?2021-06-07What a New Era of Big Government Could Mean for Bitcoin2021-06-06Is the Bitcoin Bull Market Over?2021-06-05Who Matters More to Bitcoin: Whales or Plebs?2021-06-04Chinese State Media Indicates China Is NOT Banning Crypto Trading2021-06-03Ransomware Is the Next Big Bitcoin FUD2021-06-02Why the Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein Says Governments Can't Stop Crypto2021-05-22This Earth Day, Let's Reclaim the Bitcoin Energy Debate2021-04-22Coinbase Going Public Is the Bitcoin Bull Market's First Big Test2021-04-12Why Cathie Wood Thinks Bitcoin Could Replace Bonds2021-02-26BREAKDOWN: So Now They’re Hacking DeFi Protocols Before They’ve Even Launched?2020-09-29BREAKDOWN: Coinbase’s New Policy – Anti-Woke or Just a Joke?2020-09-29Violent Reflexivity – Why Market Movements Are More Aggressive Than Ever, Feat. Corey Hoffstein2020-09-23BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on Why Bitcoin and Big Energy Are Unlikely Allies2020-09-22BREAKDOWN: The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering2020-09-21BREAKDOWN: Lyn Alden’s Latest – Why Currency Devaluation Is Inevitable2020-09-20SOB: How Does Kraken's New Crypto Bank Work?2020-09-20RESEARCH: The ‘Hot Swap’ Plan to Switch Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake Explained2020-09-19BREAKDOWN: Why the First US Crypto Bank Is a Big Deal2020-09-19BREAKDOWN: 'I Didn't Buy It to Sell It. Ever.' MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor on His $425M Bitcoin Bet2020-09-18BREAKDOWN: Monetary Policy is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring, Feat. Raoul Pal2020-09-17BREAKDOWN: Governments vs. Networks – The Battle for the Soul of Finance2020-09-16BREAKDOWN: The Decade of the Living Dead – How Zombie Companies Are Robbing Tomorrow’s Economy2020-09-15BREAKDOWN: The Business of Geopolitical Competition2020-09-14BREAKDOWN: Is Being the ‘Saudi Arabia of Money’ Good for America?2020-09-13BREAKDOWN: The Raw, Savage Capitalism of Open-Source Protocols2020-09-12RESEARCH: A Day in the Life of an Ethereum 2.0 Validator2020-09-12BREAKDOWN: ‘As Toppy as It Gets’ – Metals, Bitcoin and Fiat’s Race to the Bottom, Feat. Tavi Costa2020-09-11BREAKDOWN: How Monetary Policy Undermined American Resilience2020-09-10BREAKDOWN: 'Absolute Raging Mania' – Famed Investor Druckenmiller Thinks 10% Inflation Is Possible2020-09-09BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Investors Aren’t Worried About This Price Pullback2020-09-08BREAKDOWN: Sorry, Governments, We’re Entering the Era of Private Money2020-09-07BREAKDOWN: A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse2020-09-06BREAKDOWN: Is Tesla a Stock for Suckers?2020-09-05RESEARCH: 3 Things You Should Know Before Staking on Ethereum 2.02020-09-05BREAKDOWN: 8 Historical Analogies That Help Explain the Madness of 20202020-09-04BREAKDOWN: DeFi Degens Are Crypto’s Suicide Squad2020-09-03BREAKDOWN: Let Them Eat Equities! The Economic Chickens Come Home to Roost, Feat. Luke Gromen2020-09-02BREAKDOWN: Financial Postmodernism and the Great Inflation Debate2020-09-01BREAKDOWN: US Stock Market Cap to GDP Reaches 190%, Eclipsing Dot-Com Bubble High2020-08-31BREAKDOWN: The Case for $500,000 Bitcoin2020-08-30BREAKDOWN: The End of an Era? Why Bitcoin and MMT Won the Week2020-08-29BREAKDOWN: The Anxiety Index... 4 Fear Factors Shaping the Economy2020-08-28BREAKDOWN: Everything You Need to Know About Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole Speech2020-08-27BREAKDOWN: The Battle to Get Dictator’s Seized Millions to 62,000 Venezuelan Health Heroes2020-08-26BREAKDOWN: An Unintended Consequence of Low Interest Rates? The Big Get Bigger2020-08-25BREAKDOWN: How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? Feat. Adam Tooze2020-08-24BREAKDOWN: Why Are Traditional Investors So Hungry for Yield Curve Control?2020-08-23BREAKDOWN: People Aren’t Buying the ‘Great American Recovery’ Narrative2020-08-22BREAKDOWN: Winter Is Coming... Examining the Economy's Eight-Body Problem2020-08-21BREAKDOWN: The Most Pro-Bitcoin Politicians in the US2020-08-20BREAKDOWN: S&P5 vs. S&P 500: The Real Story of the Stock Market Recovery2020-08-19BREAKDOWN: How Excess Capital and Low Interest Rates Reshaped Silicon Valley, Feat. Chris McCann2020-08-18BREAKDOWN: What’s Actually Happening With Inflation Right Now2020-08-17LEIGH: Meet a Freelance Cypherpunk Developer in Africa2020-08-16BREAKDOWN: Is Asteroid Mining Really Our Best Argument for Bitcoin Over Gold?2020-08-16LEIGH: What Venezuelans Think About Bitcoin and American Media2020-08-15BREAKDOWN: Here Comes the Most Bizarre Bull Market Yet2020-08-15BREAKDOWN: Fortnite vs. Apple and Google Is the Internet's First ‘World War’2020-08-14BREAKDOWN: Preston Pysh on Why We’ve Entered a Fundamentally New Era of Bitcoin Accumulation2020-08-13BREAKDOWN: #SupplyGate and the Battle to Frame Crypto’s Next Bull Run2020-08-12BREAKDOWN: Joe Rogan for Fed Chair! Feat. Hugh Hendry2020-08-11BREAKDOWN: The Latest on the Global Economy's Most Contentious Relationship2020-08-10BREAKDOWN: How the Purpose of Public Markets Has Changed2020-08-09BREAKDOWN: The Mounting Evidence of a New Bitcoin Bull Market2020-08-08BREAKDOWN: 11 Numbers That Tell the Story of the Economy Right Now2020-08-07BREAKDOWN: The History, Present and Future of Central Banks, Feat. George Selgin2020-08-06BREAKDOWN: Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough on Stagflation, Bitcoin and the Devalued Dollar2020-08-05BREAKDOWN: Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Bobby Goodlatte2020-08-04LEIGH: What People Who Aren’t Bullish On Bitcoin Still Like About It2020-08-04BREAKDOWN: Rage Against the Economic Machine... The Best of the Breakdown July 20202020-08-03BREAKDOWN: For What Future Are We Building Bitcoin?2020-08-02BREAKDOWN: Previewing the Economic Showdowns Coming This Fall2020-08-01LEIGH: Why This Sex Industry Executive Loves Bitcoin2020-08-01BREAKDOWN: What a Professional Trader Thinks of the Fed, Robinhood and Real Estate, Feat. Tony Greer2020-07-31BREAKDOWN: The Bond Market Is the Truth Teller No One Heeds, Feat. George Goncalves2020-07-30BREAKDOWN: How DeFi Could Disrupt Traditional Finance, Feat. Sergey Nazarov2020-07-29BREAKDOWN: How Real Is Bitcoin’s Rally? 8 Interpretations of Bitcoin's Massive Surge2020-07-28BREAKDOWN: SPACs 101... A Bubble, the Future or Both?2020-07-27ANNA: The Future for Unregulated Bitcoin Exchanges2020-07-26BREAKDOWN: Is this China’s Century or the US’s? Maybe It’s Both2020-07-26LEIGH: What Sex Workers Want To Do With Bitcoin2020-07-25BREAKDOWN: As Economic Indicators Get Worse, the US Revs Up the Next Multi-Trillion Stimulus2020-07-25BREAKDOWN: Could the European Recovery Plan Actually Break Europe Apart?2020-07-24BREAKDOWN: Will Big Tech Enable or Destroy Small Business? Feat. Sahil Bloom2020-07-23BREAKDOWN: A Simple Explanation of DeFi and Yield Farming Using Actual Human Words2020-07-22BREAKDOWN: What's Behind the Fed's New Push to Promote Inflation?2020-07-21BREAKDOWN: What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?2020-07-20BREAKDOWN: Are Stablecoins Eurodollars 2.0? Long Reads Sunday2020-07-19RESEARCH: The Origins of the World's Oldest Bitcoin Metric, Explained2020-07-19BREAKDOWN: Social Media Is Democracy's Faultline... The Breakdown Weekly Recap2020-07-18BREAKDOWN: What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek2020-07-17BREAKDOWN: No, the Twitter Hack Wasn't About Bitcoin2020-07-16BREAKDOWN: A Primer on the US and China’s 'New Cold War'2020-07-15BREAKDOWN: Why Are Execs of Bankrupt Companies Being Rewarded With Millions?2020-07-14BREAKDOWN: The Real Story Behind $TSLA's Rally2020-07-13BREAKDOWN: Does COVID-19 Have The World Rethinking Dollar Supremacy?2020-07-12LEIGH: What a Bitcoin Researcher Says About Lightning2020-07-12BREAKDOWN: The Mixed Signals Economy on The Breakdown Weekly Recap2020-07-11BREAKDOWN: You Can’t Fight Outrage Culture With More Outrage, Feat. Michael Krieger2020-07-10BREAKDOWN: Inequality, Social Chaos, Bankruptcy Rallies: The Best Insights From FinTwit June 20202020-07-09BREAKDOWN: TikTok Doge Is Everything About 2020 Finance In One Story2020-07-08BREAKDOWN: Central Banks Cannot Print Jobs: Understanding Real Economic Recovery, Feat. Daniel Lacalle2020-07-07BREAKDOWN: China Stocks Surge and NYC Real Estate Craters... 5 Stories Shaping Markets Today2020-07-06LEIGH: What Artists Love About Crypto2020-07-05BREAKDOWN: It’s Time for a Revolution in Financial Education, Feat. Tyrone Ross2020-07-04BREAKDOWN: Here’s How to Expand Who Contributes to Bitcoin Core2020-07-03BREAKDOWN: Why the Robinhood Revolution Is the Future of Finance, Feat. Jill Carlson2020-07-02BREAKDOWN: Satoshi’s Unappreciated Marketing Genius, Feat. Dan Held2020-07-01BREAKDOWN: ‘It Sure Doesn’t Feel Like the Greatest Economy of All Time,’ Feat. George Gammon2020-06-30BREAKDOWN: How the Fed Fans the Flame – The Best of The Breakdown June 20202020-06-29BREAKDOWN: Welcome to the Groundhog Day Economy (PS, It Sucks)2020-06-27BREAKDOWN: How Monopolies Sow the Seeds of Their Own Destruction2020-06-26BREAKDOWN: Is Scam Selling Suppressing the Price of Bitcoin?2020-06-25BREAKDOWN: Bull vs. Bear... Who Has the Economy Right?2020-06-24BREAKDOWN: Oil 101... How Easy Money Enabled the Shale Revolution, Feat. Tracy Shuchart2020-06-23BREAKDOWN: Macro Investors Sound Off! Featuring Ari Paul, Spencer Bogart and David Nage2020-06-22LTB!: Bitcoin Only Matters Because the Game Is Rigged2020-06-21BREAKDOWN: A Dozen+ Statistics Proving Millennials Are F%#$&D... The Breakdown Weekly Recap2020-06-20BREAKDOWN: Why Monetary Debasement Is Here to Stay, Feat. Dr. Vikram Mansharamani2020-06-19BREAKDOWN: 6 Things Jobless Claims Tell Us About the State of the Real Economy2020-06-18BREAKDOWN: What Satoshi Understood... Nobody Knows You're a Dog on Social Media, Feat. The Crypto Dog2020-06-17BREAKDOWN: From Moral Hazard to Business as Usual, Feat. Jesse Felder2020-06-16BREAKDOWN: Sorry, Bloomberg: Here Are 6 Reasons Why 2020 Is a Great Year for Bitcoin2020-06-15LTB!: Bootstrapping Mobile Mesh Networks with Bitcoin Lightning2020-06-14BREAKDOWN: The Chad Index Versus Doomer Internet Money... The Breakdown Weekly Recap2020-06-13LEIGH: How The Porn Industry Changed During Coronavirus, With Performers Wary of Bitcoin2020-06-13BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is More Than an Inflation Hedge2020-06-12BREAKDOWN: Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality2020-06-11BREAKDOWN: A Vision for Digital Property Rights, Feat. Nic Carter2020-06-10BREAKDOWN: What the Stock Market's 'Robinhood Rally' Means for Bitcoin2020-06-09BREAKDOWN: Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today’s Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan2020-06-08LTB!: 'Be Your Own Bank' and the 'Luxury of Apathy'2020-06-07BREAKDOWN: The Revolution Will Be Retweeted... The Breakdown Weekly Recap2020-06-06BREAKDOWN: The Biggest Realignment in the US-China Relationship Since Nixon, Feat. Graham Webster2020-06-05BREAKDOWN: The Mirage of the Money Printer... Why the Fed Is More PR Than Policy, Feat. Jeffrey P. Snider2020-06-04DISCUSSION: Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of Speech2020-06-04BREAKDOWN: 5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now2020-06-03BREAKDOWN: Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein2020-06-02BREAKDOWN: The Power and Peril of the 'Bitcoin Fixes This' Meme2020-06-01LTB!: 'We Need 30 Different Words for Different Kinds of Censorship'2020-05-31BREAKDOWN: The Battle for the Future of Money, feat. Lawrence Summers, CZ, Michelle Phan, the Winklevoss brothers, The Chainsmokers and more.2020-05-29BREAKDOWN: The Geopolitical Implications of a Too-Strong Dollar, Feat. Brent Johnson2020-05-28BREAKDOWN: Why Innovation Matters (and How Not to Screw It Up), Feat. Matt Ridley2020-05-27BREAKDOWN: Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis2020-05-26BREAKDOWN: The Shadow of Satoshi's Ghost... Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters2020-05-22BREAKDOWN: 'Dismantle the Euro to Save Europe' Feat. Tuomas Malinen2020-05-21BREAKDOWN: Why a Strong Dollar Is Bad for the US and Bad for the World, Feat. Lyn Alden2020-05-20BREAKDOWN: 'Minsky Moments' and the Financial History of Pandemics2020-05-19BREAKDOWN: USV's Albert Wenger on the World After Capital2020-05-18BREAKDOWN: Money Reimagined... Where Bitcoin Fits in the New Monetary Order2020-05-15BREAKDOWN: Surveying the Carnage... Movies, Sports and Education in Crisis2020-05-14BREAKDOWN: Why Debt Can’t Buy More Growth, Feat. Jeff Booth2020-05-13BREAKDOWN: How We Future Now - Live With Kathleen Breitman, Caitlin Long and More2020-05-12BREAKDOWN: The Great Monetary Inflation... Paul Tudor Jones' Complete Case for Bitcoin2020-05-11LTB!: Bitcoin Miners, US Energy Producers and Moores Law2020-05-10LEIGH: Scams, Schemes and Crypto Privacy, Feat. Preston Byrne2020-05-09BREAKDOWN: Money Reimagined... The Global Contenders Trying to Displace the Dollar2020-05-08BREAKDOWN: 9 Reasons Why Bitcoin Has Never Been Stronger Going Into a Halving2020-05-07BREAKDOWN: Surveying the Carnage: How Real Estate, Travel and Music Are Faring During the Crisis2020-05-06BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto Matters for Financial Inclusion, Feat. Celo's Marek Olszewski2020-05-05BREAKDOWN: Why Warren Buffett's Bearishness Should End V-Shaped Recovery Talk2020-05-04RESEARCH: Bitcoin Halving 2020... How the World's Largest Mining Pool Is Helping Miners 'De-Risk'2020-05-02BREAKDOWN: Money Reimagined... Why the Dollar Has Never Been Stronger or More Set up to Fail2020-05-01BREAKDOWN: From Corrupt to Broken... An Insider’s Analysis of the Fed, Feat. Danielle Dimartino Booth2020-04-30BREAKDOWN: When Currencies Fail... A Primer on the Dollar Crisis in Lebanon2020-04-29BREAKDOWN: COVID-19 and the Mass Surveillance Machine, Feat. Maya Zehavi2020-04-28BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin vs. QE Infinity and the 4 Archetypes of the Halving Debate2020-04-27LTB!: Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed2020-04-26RESEARCH: Bitcoin Halving 2020 the 'Arms Race' for Miner Efficiency Intensifies2020-04-25BREAKDOWN: Starting a Bitcoin Startup During the COVID-19 Crisis, Feat. Yan Pritzker2020-04-24BREAKDOWN: We Don’t Need Big Brother to Beat This Virus2020-04-23AFRICA: Fighting Scams and Preaching Bitcoin in Botswana, Feat. Alakani Itireleng2020-04-23BREAKDOWN: The History of the Dollar System From Bretton Woods to QE Infinity, Feat. Luke Gromen2020-04-22BREAKDOWN: From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann2020-04-21BREAKDOWN: Bearish or Bullish? What Oil, Defi Hacks and Cash Hoarding Tell Us About Markets2020-04-20LEIGH: BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen on 'a System That Doesn't Suck'2020-04-19RESEARCH: The Market Impacts of a Bitcoin Halving Explained2020-04-18BREAKDOWN: Why Money Is Losing Its Meaning, Feat. Jared Dillian2020-04-17BREAKDOWN: Libra vs. DCEP? The Battle for the Future of Money Heats Up2020-04-16AFRICA: Bitcoin Maximalism, Entrepreneurs and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe (Part 5 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)2020-04-16BREAKDOWN: What the Economy Will Look Like 6 Months From Now, Feat. Ryan Selkis2020-04-15BREAKDOWN: The $20,000 Human IPO and 5 Other Crypto Stories That Have Nothing to Do With COVID-192020-04-14ANNA: Making Sense of the SEC's Case Against Telegram2020-04-12RESEARCH: How Miners are Preparing for Lower Block Rewards2020-04-11BREAKDOWN: Quantitative Tightening and 5 Key Questions for Our Changing World2020-04-10BREAKDOWN: Rebuilding the Resilience Economy, Feat. Anthony Pompliano2020-04-09AFRICA: If Bitcoin Works in Zimbabwe, It Works Everywhere (Part 4 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)2020-04-09BREAKDOWN: The Questions We're Not Allowed to Ask, Feat. Hidden Forces' Demetri Kofinas2020-04-08BREAKDOWN: Exit Plans, Premature Rallies and Frontline Heroes, Feat. Ben Hunt2020-04-07BREAKDOWN: How Disruption Makes Humanity Stronger, Feat. Emerson Spartz2020-04-06LTB!: BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen on Coronavirus Second Order Effects and Improving on Bitcoin2020-04-05RESEARCH: Miner Perspectives on Bitcoin Halving 2020, Part 1 of a New Podcast Series2020-04-04BREAKDOWN: Will DeFi Matter in a Post-Coronavirus World? Feat. Matt Luongo2020-04-03BREAKDOWN: 5 Reasons for Cautious Optimism in Crypto2020-04-02AFRICA: Using Bitcoin in Zimbabwe (Part 3 of a Six-Part Documentary Podcast Series)2020-04-02BREAKDOWN: How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan2020-04-01BREAKDOWN: ‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention’ Feat. Nic Carter2020-03-31BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 Is Changing Key Crypto Narratives2020-03-30LTB!: How MakerDAO's Stablecoin Survived the Crash, Smart Contract Bugs and Full Decentralization2020-03-29MICHAEL CASEY: Disruption, Money and a World of Change, Feat. Niall Ferguson2020-03-28BREAKDOWN: From Corporate Socialism to Dying for the Dow: 7 Themes That Defined the Week2020-03-27BREAKDOWN: How BlackRock Ended Up on Both Sides of the Bailout, Feat. Meltem Demirors2020-03-26BITCOIN IN AFRICA: Hyperinflation and Zimbabwe's Multi-Currency Reality2020-03-26BREAKDOWN: Why the U.S.' $2 Trillion Stimulus, Unlimited QE Will Expose the Monetary System’s Flaws2020-03-25BREAKDOWN: Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Coronavirus, Feat. Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko2020-03-24BREAKDOWN: Unlimited QE and Why Markets Can't Price in COVID-192020-03-23LTB!: Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope2020-03-22LEIGH: How Bitcoiners Can Protect Their Mental Health During The Coronavirus Crisis2020-03-21BREAKDOWN: State Power After Coronavirus, Feat. Peter McCormack2020-03-20BITCOIN IN AFRICA: The Ubuntu Way (Zimbabwe)2020-03-19BREAKDOWN: Can Open Source Networks Address Medical Shortages? Feat. Bruce Fenton2020-03-18BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Is the Only Truly Free Market, Feat. Dan Tapiero2020-03-17BREAKDOWN: Can $700B in Quantitative Easing Calm the Markets? CoinDesk's Michael Casey and Noelle Acheson Discuss2020-03-16LTB!: Consensus Oracles and 'Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized' 6 Years Later2020-03-15LEIGH: Udi Wetheimer on Real Bitcoin Use and Cyperpunk Myths2020-03-14BREAKDOWN: What Happens When Currencies Fail? Feat. Preston Pysh2020-03-13BREAKDOWN: 6 Good Reasons for Bitcoin HODLers to Stay Calm2020-03-12BREAKDOWN: Ben Hunt on Markets and Narratives in the Age of Coronavirus2020-03-11BREAKDOWN: Crypto Fundraising and a Nothing-Is-Safe Haven2020-03-10BREAKDOWN: What the Market Crash Means for Bitcoin, Feat. Delphi's Kevin Kelly2020-03-09LEIGH: Leader to Watch: Elena Giralt Talks Zcash and Feminism2020-03-07BREAKDOWN: FluffyPony on Encryption, Clearview and How Coronavirus Could Impact Privacy2020-03-06LEIGH: Binance US and Stellar CEOs Debunk Myths for International Women’s Day2020-03-06BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Mining Might Be the New Business Model for US Power Plants2020-03-05BREAKDOWN: Libra Plus? A New Global Digital Currency Strategy for Facebook2020-03-04BREAKDOWN: Super Tuesday Special: What Us Election Outcome Is Best for Bitcoin?2020-03-03BREAKDOWN: The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham2020-03-02LTB!: Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)2020-03-01BREAKDOWN: Understanding This Week's Market Whiplash, Feat. Scott Melker2020-02-28BREAKDOWN: A 101 Guide to Ethereum's ProgPOW Controversy2020-02-27BREAKDOWN: Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven or 'Schmuck Insurance'?2020-02-26COINDESK EXPLAINS: Sim Card Hacks2020-02-26BREAKDOWN: 6 Explanations for Crypto's Fascination With Coronavirus2020-02-25BREAKDOWN: Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank2020-02-24LTB!: Decentralization Philosophy Part 2 - Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?2020-02-23LEIGH: 'Pandora's Box, but for Freedom': Author Isaiah Jackson on Bitcoin's Impact2020-02-22BREAKDOWN: Why Today's Crypto Exchange Leaders Are Powerful, but Not Inevitable2020-02-21BREAKDOWN: Why We Should Stop Thinking of ‘Crypto’ as a Single Industry2020-02-20BREAKDOWN: Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks2020-02-19BREAKDOWN: Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi?2020-02-18LEIGH: How Bitcoin Is Used To Promote Human Rights, Feat. Stories from Activists and Refugees2020-02-17LTB!: Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto2020-02-16RESEARCH: We Think 10-Minute Settlement Is Slow, but That's Crazy, Feat. CoinDesk Research's Noelle Acheson2020-02-15BREAKDOWN: The Top Narratives Driving Crypto Market Growth, feat. Travis Kling2020-02-14INTERVIEW: US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing ‘a Crime’ in Arrest of Software Developer2020-02-14BREAKDOWN: The US Government's Mixed Signals on Digital Currency Privacy2020-02-13BREAKDOWN: Puppets, Pundits and Partnerships: Why Crypto Sentiment and Prices Are Soaring2020-02-12BREAKDOWN: Muneeb Ali Explains Blockstack's Big Bet on Bitcoin2020-02-11BREAKDOWN: On the Frontlines of the SEC Safe Harbor Proposal With CoinList CoFounder Andy Bromberg2020-02-10LTB!: US Crypto Taxes Are a Nightmare. Could These Proposals Help?2020-02-09BREAKDOWN: Kraken’s Dan Held on What’s Different About Bitcoin at $10K This Time2020-02-07BREAKDOWN: The Federal Reserve Has Its ‘Come to Satoshi’ Moment2020-02-06BREAKDOWN: What All These VC Deals and Acquisitions Say About the State of the Crypto Markets2020-02-05Handshake's Uncensorable Web Domains Go Live on Mainnet2020-02-04Bitcoin and the Sex Industry2020-02-04BREAKDOWN: Deplatforming, Ethereum Marketing and Whether Brexit Matters for Crypto2020-02-03Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project2020-02-02The Founders of Synthetix and Chainlink on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds2020-01-31BREAKDOWN: The Unsolved Mystery of How to Fund Public Protocols2020-01-30BREAKDOWN: Binance US CEO Catherine Coley Explains Why Crypto Exchanges Are Rushing Into Staking2020-01-29BREAKDOWN: The Future of Crypto FUD2020-01-28DISCUSSION: What Are Lightning Wallets Doing to Help Onboard New Users?2020-01-26BREAKDOWN: Davos, CBDCs, and the Rise of Bitcoin Art2020-01-24BREAKDOWN: Will Mass Adoption Be More PayPal or Pornhub?2020-01-23BREAKDOWN: Why High-Profile Defections Aren’t Libra’s Biggest Challenge2020-01-22BREAKDOWN: Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Controversy and the Future of Open-Source Funding2020-01-21Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors2020-01-19BREAKDOWN: Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice Of DeFi2020-01-17BREAKDOWN: Why 'Crypto Dad' Is Building the Digital Dollar Foundation2020-01-16BREAKDOWN: Why Crypto's 'Rogue State' Narrative is a Risk to the Industry2020-01-15BREAKDOWN: Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge | January 14th, 20202020-01-14Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto's Killer App | January 13th 20202020-01-13'The Internet Was Illegal' and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox2020-01-12BREAKDOWN: The Global Game of Coins Heats Up | January 10th, 20202020-01-10NARRATIVE WATCH: Will DAOs Break Out In 2020? | January 9th, 20202020-01-09BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 20192020-01-08BREAKDOWN: Hamstringing an Industry With Compliance Costs | January 7th, 20202020-01-07BREAKDOWN: Taking the TON out of Telegram | January 6th 20202020-01-06YouTube, Tron and the Dream of Decentralization | January 3rd, 20192020-01-03BREAKDOWN: Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 20202020-01-01BREAKDOWN: Tom Shaughnessy & Jordan Clifford on Layer 1 Wars, Token Economics and a Shift to Applications2019-12-31BREAKDOWN: Katherine Wu on DeFi and the Inevitability of the Digital Yuan2019-12-30BREAKDOWN: Camila Russo and David Hoffman on the 2020 DeFi Outlook2019-12-27BREAKDOWN: Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon2019-12-26BREAKDOWN: Rob ‘Crypto Bobby’ Paone and Preethi Kasireddy on Fundraising, Halvings, and the Long Steady Slog of Crypto2019-12-25BREAKDOWN: Meltem Demirors on Government Digital Currencies and Why ‘The Halvening’ Gets Weird2019-12-24BREAKDOWN: Peter McCormack On A Defiant New Era For Bitcoin2019-12-23BREAKDOWN: Art Haus Ethereum Meets Bitcoin Financialization2019-12-20BREAKDOWN: Should the Government Have a Say in Where Can Invest?2019-12-19BREAKDOWN: 'Stacking Sats' vs. 'ETH is Money' - The Memes That Shaped 20192019-12-18BREAKDOWN: The Productization of Bitcoin Maximalism2019-12-17Announcing: The Road to Consensus! 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