CoinDesk Podcast Network

On the weekly recap, NLW looks at growth in institutional investment, big interest among the G20 in CBDCs and a new National Security Council report. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at: Growth in the institutional investment space in crypto A new 10,000 BTC treasury announcement  Reports from the Bank for Inter...

Grammy-winning recording artist RAC explores the business of music and how crypto experiments could shift the balance of power. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today’s Breakdown is a conversation with Andre Anjos – aka RAC, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and music entrepreneur. He and NLW discuss: Starting the “Remix Artist Collective” as a business Evolving...

Between bitcoin treasury holdings growing and crypto-focused SPACs, private crypto markets and public equities markets are closer than ever. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: Initial jobless claims rise to highest level since August BTC as a DeFi reserve asset Twitter reactions as Filecoin goes live Our main discussion focuses on the convergence of...

Stone Ridge Holdings Group announces $50 million in new funding for its digital asset subsidiary as well as significant BTC treasury holdings. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief:  Bitcoin hashrate at all-time highs Record number of large companies lose money during the pandemic JPMorgan releases research note on bitcoin Our main discussion: Stone Ridg...

New reports on digital currency design principles and regulatory standards show just how quickly the world’s bankers are moving. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: Is the “blue wave” Democrat victory narrative in the presidential election starting to shake up Wall Street?  Johnson & Johnson pause COVID-19 vaccine trial  1000 Satoshi-era bitcoins are...

As the U.S. presidential election gets closer, market “predictions” are showing up in stocks from energy to private prisons.  This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: Market rally to highest point in six weeks BTC and ETH up in part on Grayscale ETH trust becoming an SEC reporting company (Grayscale, like CoinDesk, is a unit of DCG.) CBDCs (and CBDC skepti...

On this “Speaking of Bitcoin” episode, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and special guest Martin Rerak, creator of AllYourFeeds.com, for a look at how “AI curation” is being used to figure out what’s useful information and what’s just fluff. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic Hundreds of tabs In the early days of Bitcoin, there were just a few...

According to analyst Lyn Alden, the answer depends on bitcoin’s own cycle.  This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on Long Reads Sunday, a reading of Lyn Alden’s piece for CoinDesk: “Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In” In it, Lyn argues that bitcoin’s correlation patterns are, in part, reliant on where bitcoin finds itself in its own cycles of expansio...

The virtual event invest: ethereum economy takes place on Wednesday, Oct. 14. CoinDesk’s Christine Kim spoke to colleagues Michael J. Casey and Aaron Stanley about the most compelling and under-discussed topics about Ethereum 2.0 headlining next week’s conference.   From the dynamics of staking to the architecture of sharding, there haven’t been many topics Ethereum 2.0 core developers have shied...

Between BitMEX action, the U.K.’s derivative ban and the new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement framework, regulations are coming for crypto.  This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. On this week’s Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at a cross-section of regulatory news, including: CFTC and DOJ action against BitMEX and its leadership The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’...

Cathie Wood bet early on Bitcoin and Tesla, and her ARK Innovation Fund is up 75% in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Forbes called her “the newest superstar investor,” and it’s not hard to see why.  Cathie Wood is radically disrupting the way money is allocated. Fighting the rise of passive – what she calls the “greatest misallocation of resources in history” –...

Reactions from Bitcoin Twitter and beyond as Square puts 1% of its treasury assets into bitcoin. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. A special breaking edition of The Breakdown follows the market’s reaction to Square’s surprise $50 million bitcoin investment.  NLW breaks down the foundations for the investment, including: 2020’s alignment between the bitcoin narrative an...

Crypto trader, analyst and operator Qiao Wang looks at bitcoin’s macro resilience and why DeFi is here to stay. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: Stimulus talk shutdown spooks markets House recommends antitrust actions but likely to get nowhere CBDC trial results from China Our main discussion is with trader and entrepreneur Qiao Wang. In this conve...

The crypto industry reacts to a big move from the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: John McAfee arrested in Spain BTC addresses added spikes to two-year high A new election-market narrative emerges Our main discussion: The U.K. has banned crypto derivatives.  Just days after the U.S. announced significan...

As the European Union gets more serious about a digital euro, most central bank digital currencies intend to remove the anonymity of cash. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic. Today on the Brief: Markets gain as Pres. Trump’s condition stabilizes SEC Chairman Clayton sees future where all stocks are tokenized Uniswap had more volume than Coinbase in September  Our main di...

With final preparations for the launch of Ethereum 2.0 soon to be underway, CoinDesk's Christine Kim spoke to Cayman Nava, technical lead at ChainSafe Systems and Alexey Akhunov, an independent researcher and software developer about the kinks in ETH's evolution that still need to be worked out. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.co. The Ethereum blockchain processes abo...

A reading of a new piece from the Wall Street Journal that NLW argues shows a shifting mainstream narrative. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.co. Today’s Long Reads Sunday selection is “How To Avoid Paying the Cruelest Tax: Inflation” from the Wall Street Journal. NLW argues the piece reflects a changing conversation in mainstream financial circles about the possibilit...

A monthly recap featuring conversations with Luke Gromen, Raoul Pal, Tavi Costa, Sven Henrich, Corey Hoffstein and Michael Saylor. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.co. A recap of September, which NLW calls a transitional month between the post-lockdown excitement of the summer and the growing macro insecurity around second wave fears and election volatility.  Featuring...

Crypto legal experts join NLW to discuss the U.S. government’s case against BitMEX and its implications for the broader ecosystem.  This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.co. Today on the Brief: Market reaction to Pres. Trump contracting COVID-19 Subpar September jobs report Decentralized exchanges have third straight 100%+ growth month  Our main discussion explores the rami...

NLW recaps a viral twitter thread asking people which financial conventional wisdom they disagree with. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.co. When popular finance writer Morgan Housel asked followers on Twitter to share the commonly held investing beliefs they most disagreed with, the internet responded with vigor.  A thousand or so replies later, NLW ranks the top 10 i...

The attention may have been with DeFi when it was warm, but as the cold winds of COVID-19 return fears and election volatility blow, bitcoin is resuming narrative dominance. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today on the Brief: Coinbase offers severance to employees who want to leave over new politics policy Long-term job cuts hamper any idea of V-shaped recovery Last...

When the DeFi degens caught wind of a new pre-release Andre Cronje project they piled in, only to get $16 million hacked away in a flash. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. DeFi is one of the breakout crypto categories of 2020. Indeed, yield farming and the grand game of “money legos” has been so profitable that many are following every new protocol with rapt attention....

CEO Brian Armstrong’s letter has not just the crypto world but the larger world of tech and business talking about the role of corporations in society.  This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Monday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published the innocuously titled “Coinbase Is a Mission-Driven Company.”  While the post talked a lot about Coinbase’s core mission, its real goal...

Bitcoin has been above $10,000 for even longer than the record 2017-18 run, giving confidence to long term HODLers in the process. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today on the Brief: After four weeks down, bitcoin bounces back on suspicions that recent bearishness was overblown KuCoin exchange gets hacked for somewhere between $150 million and $280 million Jack Dorse...

On this Speaking of Bitcoin episode, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for an in-depth discussion about what’s really at risk when blockchains suffer the dreaded 51% attack. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. On today’s show we’re talking 51% attacks, the much discussed, infrequently seen and fairly misunderstood dooms...