The Breakdown

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Mike Dudas of 6th Man Ventures and LinksDAO.    Find our guest on Twitter: @mdudas - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wallet - a non-custodial smart wallet that allows y...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Muneeb Ali, CEO of Trust Machines and founder of Stacks.   Find our guest on Twitter: @muneeb - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wallet - a non-custodial smart wallet th...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Sam Abbassi, founder and CEO of Hoseki.   Find our guest on Twitter: @samabbassi - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wallet - a non-custodial smart wallet that allows you...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association.    Find our guest on Twitter: @KMSmithDC - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wallet - a non-custodial sma...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Alyse Killeen, founder and general partner at Stillmark.    Find our guest on Twitter: @AlyseKilleen - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wallet - a non-custodial smart wa...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On this year’s final “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads “The 10 Biggest Developments in Bitcoin in 2022” by Cory Klippsten, Tomer Strolight and Sam Callahan.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the N...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Today’s guest is Messari CEO Ryan Selkis.    Find our guest on Twitter: @twobitidiot Read Crypto Theses for 2023: messari.io/crypto-theses-for-2023 - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and keeps innovating with products like the Nexo Wal...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   In breaking news last night, Sam Bankman-Fried was extradited from the Bahamas to the U.S. to face charges ranging from wire fraud to campaign finance fraud. Almost as soon as the plane took off, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Alameda’s Caroline Ellison and FTX’s Gary Wang had pleaded guilty and were...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Ah, what a perfect way to end a year of fraud, deception and disappointment. Earlier this week, on-chain sleuths noticed that more than 100 BTC were on the move from wallets that were controlled by and theoretically only accessible to former QuadrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten. The problem? Cotten was supposed to have died in December of 2018.  -...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On today’s episode, NLW looks at the latest out of Twitter, including a dust-up about location doxxing and the journalists who were suspended as a result, a new policy banning links to external social networks and a poll from Elon Musk asking whether he should step down as CEO.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchan...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the latest in the crypto industry, including: Sam Bankman-Fried changes his tune on extradition DCG-owned coins on the move Audit firms ceasing crypto operations    (CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of DCG.)    - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow ag...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads:“Starlink, Verizon 5G and Crypto: What the New ‘War of the Currents’ Means for Decentralization” by Tim Kravchunovsky   “ChatGPT Will Kill Search and Open a Path to Web3” by Michael J. Casey  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow a...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at how the FTX bankruptcy is proceeding following the arrest of disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried, as well as the concerns surrounding Binance that have been present all week.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against you...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the latest non-FTX crypto news, including: Former President Trump’s NFT sellout Jack Dorsey funding decentralized social networks PayPal partnering with MetaMask    - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ens...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   Today’s episode is a deep dive into the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. NLW covers not just the policy updates but the details of Chair Jerome Powell’s speech and the Q&A after. The big message coming from the Federal Reserve is “there’s more work to be done.”  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the most recent inflation numbers. U.S. headline inflation for November came in at 7.1%, vs 7.7% the previous month and the 7.3% expected by surveyed economists. The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of core CPI was up just 0.2% month over month. This show looks at the numb...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   In a shocking turn of events, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested on Monday, Dec. 12 by Bahamian authorities at the request of the U.S. Southern District of New York. On today’s episode, NLW covers the charges as well as reviews the SEC and CFTC complaints.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, excha...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle, Kraken and the Galaxy Brains Podcast.   Another day, another betrayal. On Friday, news broke that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made three loans totaling $43 million to Michael McCaffrey, CEO of CoinDesk competitor The Block. Those loans went to buying out The Block’s investors, to expanding operations and (of course) to an apartment for McCaffrey i...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On this episode of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads Noelle Acheson’s “BTC Dominance Is Behaving Weirdly, and That’s Sort of Good” as well as comments from NLW’s Twitter thread on Bitcoin dominance.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW catches up on the latest U.S. regulatory news, including the legal battle around the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s actions against the Ooki DAO, a new bill that would have the Environmental Protection Agency study crypto mining, and more.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   Crypto Twitter was in a tizzy this week about CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022. Specifically, bitcoin maximalists decried its lack of bitcoin maximalists. On this episode, NLW addresses the controversy, reads Pete Rizzo’s list of top bitcoiners of 2022 and adds his own nominations.  - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, ex...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken. Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the shift in tone around SBF following the FTX collapse. Both the House and the Senate are holding hearings on FTX next week, and have confirmed that if former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried doesn’t testify voluntarily, he could be compelled via subpoena. The show also covers Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s fight ag...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On today’s episode, NLW provides an overview of the broader economy, including: Wall Street’s predictions for a bad 2023 PepsiCo layoffs OPEC+ oil decision China backing off Zero-Covid policies    - Nexo is a security-first platform where you can buy, exchange and borrow against your crypto. The company ensures the safety of your funds and...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   In a conversation with Reuters, Goldman Sachs’ head of digital assets suggested the bank would be spending tens of millions of dollars to invest in, or buy outright, crypto firms whose prices had come down significantly in the wake of the FTX collapse. In today’s episode, NLW looks at the latest news on that collapse and whether TradFi com...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.   On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the latest surrounding the fallout of FTX, including Sam Bankman-Fried’s back and forth with House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) over a congressional appearance next week, a spotting of Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison in New York City, the latest in the Three Ar...