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Podcasts featuring news, illuminating discussion and insightful commentary from the editorial team at CoinDesk.com.
The top stories and best shows in the blockchain world, delivered daily from the team at CoinDesk.
Tune in as CoinDesk Editor Adam B. Levine and Intern Lyllah Ledesma run down daily action in bitcoin markets and some of the most important recent industry development.
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HARD PROBLEMS: Inside Bram Cohen's Proof-of-Work Reinvention
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Bitcoin's 'Nakamoto Consensus' changed the world. For the first time ever, strangers on the internet were empowered by a system that allowed them to individually and jointly track who owned which internet-native items... First money, then early stage (and often illegal) investments, followed by digital cats, multi-million dollar art, viral memes an…
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BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Much More Than a Speculative Asset
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Stories from Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia show how bitcoin is being used in the real world. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” is a reading of Alex Gladstein’s latest piece, “Check Your Financial Privilege.” It follows the stories of people in three African nations who paint a very different picture fr…
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OPINIONATED: Asset Manager, Once Downgraded, May Soon Lead Rivals Into Crypto
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This week, “Opinionated” co-hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking to Steven E. Russell, Esq., portfolio manager for Emerald Banking and Finance Fund. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. Emerald is an asset manager that previously focused on community banks but, unlike many of its peers, coul…
On this special episode of Markets Daily from CoinDesk, managing editor Adam B. Levine shares an opinion piece from cryptocurrency researcher John Mac Ghlionn
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BREAKDOWN: Vitalik vs. Dog Money – Recapping a Crazy Week in Crypto History
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From Elon’s shenanigans to Vitalik’s SHIB rug pull, this was one for the history books. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW discusses: Why the Elon Musk issue is really one of power and audience What the Colonial Pipeline attack reveals about our critical infrastructure The debat…
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BREAKDOWN: Why the DOJ, IRS Investigation Into Binance Could Be Good for Bitcoin
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In almost any scenario, the industry faces one less category of FUD on the other side of the investigations. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. Today on the Brief: More chaos from Elon Musk Hedge funds moving into DeFi? Tether reserve attestations Our main discussion looks at recent revelations of investigations by the Department of…
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MONEY REIMAGINED: The Age of Monetary Transformation. Feat. Bruno Macaes and Tomicah Tillemann
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With CoinDesk’s Consensus just a week away, we decided that this week’s Money Reimagined episode should focus on the big macro and geopolitical themes that will be its hallmark. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. Highlights of that landmark event include Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard’s perspective on the fu…
With BTC back up to $50K and a look at why CBDCs could be even more vulnerable to attacks than the Colonial Pipeline, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Stock Futures Rise Ahead of Retail Sales Data Commodi…
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BREAKDOWN: Et tu, Elon? What’s Really Behind Tesla’s Bitcoin Betrayal
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Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin due to environmental concerns – or so it says. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. Crypto Twitter exploded last night when Elon Musk announced Tesla was backtracking and would no longer be accepting bitcoin as payment for cars. The debate came fast and furious about whether this was genuine environ…
With BTC dropping as low as $46K and a deep dive into last night's sector-wide collapse, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P Live Updates for May. 12, 2021 US consumer prices ris…
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ETH 2.0: The Intersection of Eth 2.0 Validating and Cloud Computing Explained
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In this week’s episode, CoinDesk’s Christine Kim and Consensys’ Ben Edgington discuss the security and running costs of CoinDesk’s Ethereum 2.0 staking operations with special guest, CoinDesk Director of Engineering Spencer Beggs. They also explain the main features of Eth 2.0’s first major backwards-incompatible upgrade, Altair, which is tentative…
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BREAKDOWN: 46M Americans Now Own Bitcoin as Inflation Rises to Highest Level in 13 Years
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Do rising inflation and rising levels of bitcoin ownership have anything to do with one another? This episode is sponsored by Nexo.ioand Bitstamp. Today on the Brief: SEC throws cold water on bitcoin ETF dreams MoneyGram brings bitcoin for cash to 12,000 locations (for a hefty fee) Palantir considering adding bitcoin to balance sheet Our main discu…
With ether passing the $500B market cap milestone and a look at inflation in the wake of legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller's warning, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Two-Day-Old Cryptocurrency Sur…
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ON PURPOSE: RIA Education: Educate Before You Allocate.
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Technologies such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance and artificial intelligence have expanded the professional financial landscape. Advisers serve the financial ecosystem and the world by creating a better understanding of financial concepts, technologies and behaviors. In order to do this, financial advisers must learn more abou…
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BREAKDOWN: Crypto to Replace Dollar as World’s Reserve Currency? Investing Legend Stanley Druckenmiller Thinks So
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The argument that the dollar is losing prestige worldwide got a major boost from a legendary investor. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. Last year, hedge fund gurus like Paul Tudor Jones set off the wave of institutional bitcoin buying by cementing the narrative of bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Today, one of those investors - Stan…
With bitcoin pullback risk rising and a look at the Chinese SHIB coin known as 'Doge killer,' CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Tech-Fueled Selloff Goes Global on Inflation Fears New York Wins From Brexit’…
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BREAKDOWN: If Prices Keep Going Up, We Might Have to Start Calling It Inflation
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Every day sees new reports of prices going up – from commodities to plastic to fruit. Are we ready to use the “I” word? This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp. Today on the Brief: Elon Musk saves an SNL flop with a dogecoin satellite Growing interest in Ethereum UBS explores offering crypto to wealthy clients Our main discussion: The Wal…
With ether topping $4K and a look at how we'll look back on these days as the good old days, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: U.S.-Stock Funds Ride the Earnings Wave Higher Prices Leave Consumers Feeling …
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BREAKDOWN: CBDCs Aren't About Money, They're About Power
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A China-focused discussion on this week’s “Long Reads Sunday.” This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads Sune Sorenson’s “China Is Opting Out of US-Run Financial System.” He also discusses recent pieces by Niall Ferguson and The Economist that point to a growing conversation ab…
This week, “Opinionated” co-hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking to Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and David Treat, senior managing director at Accenture, the co-founders of the Digital Dollar Project . This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io, and The Sun Exchange…
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BREAKDOWN: 'My 401(k) is now my 401(k9)' – What Happens to Doge After Elon Hosts ‘SNL’?
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While everyone was paying attention to Dog Money, bitcoin was quietly accumulating institutional news. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at: Why ETH should have had most of the attention The camps forming around dogecoin and why it’s likely to dump after …
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BREAKDOWN: The Balkanization of Bitcoin – The Next Attack on BTC Is About Mining Provenance
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From Iran miner control to “OFAC compliant blocks,” a new attack vector has emerged. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. Today on the Brief: Square puts up monster Q1 bitcoin numbers First crypto comments from new SEC Chair Gary Gensler 3 new institutional bitcoin developments Our main discussion: As bitcoin becomes …
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MONEY REIMAGINED: What Do the Laser Eyes Mean, Anyway?
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If you were to describe what crypto represents in its entirety, either to the insiders who are obsessed with it or to the “normies” looking on with wonder from the outside, you might focus on technical issues related to immutability, censorship resistance, smart contracts, decentralized exchanges and so forth. Or you might use the language of finan…
With BTC trading sideways and a look at the skepticism surrounding the dogecoin rally, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: U.S. economy likely created nearly a million jobs in April Facebook Won’t Apologize …
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BREAKDOWN: Are Banks Getting Nervous About Competition From DeFi?
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A new research paper from ING suggests that, at the very least, they’re paying more attention. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. Today on the Brief: MercadoLibre has added bitcoin to its balance sheet Galaxy Digital buys BitGo Debates around the new, improved, real economy Our main discussion: While the last year h…
With ether traders betting the price will double by July and a look at how DeFi could be more disruptive to banks than bitcoin, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: China’s Emissions Now Exceed All the Develo…
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ETH 2.0: Staking on Ethereum Is About to Get More Lucrative. Here’s Why.
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In this week’s episode, CoinDesk’s Christine Kim and Consensys’ Ben Edgington discuss the future of validator rewards post-merge to proof-of-stake (PoS) and the significance of the Steklo test network launch. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. Currently, if you’re staking on Ethereum 2.0, Ethereum’s parallel PoS net…
With BTC back above $55K and a crash course in mimetic theory, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Tech Selloff Sweeps Across Stocks; Dollar Climbs Births in U.S. Drop to Levels Not Seen Since 1979 Yellen Sa…
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BREAKDOWN: NYDIG CEO Explains How Latest Partnership Could Bring Bitcoin to 300M US Bank Accounts
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The latest in NYDIG’s year of institutional partnerships has perhaps the broadest potential for financial inclusion in Bitcoin yet. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. NLW is joined today by Robby Gutmann, CEO of NYDIG. NYDIG is quickly emerging as one of the leading companies helping onboard institutions to bitcoin.…
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BREAKDOWN: Is Dogecoin at $0.58 a Triumph or an FU to the Crypto Industry?
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As doge soars 45% in a day, the question of how to interpret its success is more pertinent than ever. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. NLW asked his Twitter followers about what the success of dogecoin meant to the crypto industry. He got an extremely diverse set of takes. Some see it as a triumph of crypto’s unco…
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ON PURPOSE: Financial Advisers Need New Technology to Make Sense of Crypto
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For the first time ever, financial advisers are at a disadvantage. That is because their clients may know more about bitcoin and crypto assets than they do. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. In such a competitive and novel market, financial advisers must stay informed. With the volatility of bitcoin, financial advi…
With ether reaching a new all-time high over $3.5K and a look at bitcoin's nonviolent security model, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Chinese banks accused of funding deforestation around world S&P Goes …
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BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Is Making Some Legendary Investors Emotional
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From Charlie Munger’s “civilization” comments to the Taproot activation, everything you need to know to start your week. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR.org and Genesis Trading. Today on The Breakdown, NLW looks at: Charlie Munger’s and Bill Maher’s weekend comments about bitcoin and why we’re likely to see a lot more of this type of cri…
With ether breaking $3K and a look at why the world might need permissionless, neutral financial systems, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io. Today's stories: Robinhood’s Biggest Business More Than Tripled Amid Trading Frenz…
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BREAKDOWN: Wall Street’s Bitcoin Isn’t Your Bitcoin
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A reading of Ben Hunt’s latest essay “In Praise of Bitcoin.” This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org. Ben Hunt is the author of the wildly popular and always provocative “Epsilon Theory.” In his recent essay “In Praise of Bitcoin,” he calls on bitcoiners to rise up and recognize that the “bitcoin” being adopted by Wall Street is an abstra…
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OPINIONATED: The Future Money Is Bitcoin and CBDCs, Feat. Nik Bhatia
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This week, “Opinionated” co-hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking to Nik Bhatia, an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. His book, "Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to…
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BREAKDOWN: Welcome Back, Flippening Narrative
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After a good performance from ETH this week, partisans are calling for a flippening yet again. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org. On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW explores: Why JPM and Tesla drove the bitcoin story Why Ethereans are hot on the call for a “flippening” again Why CBDCs are low key one of the most …
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BREAKDOWN: Crypto's War of the Roses – The 7 Factions of the 2021 Bull Market
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From BTC to ETH to NFTs to DOGE, it’s a battle for attention out there. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and NEAR.org. On today’s episode, NLW gives a comprehensive view of the battleground for attention and resources that makes up this 2021 bull market, including: Bitcoin Ethereum and DeFi Ethereum alternatives Ponzi coins Stablecoins and CBDC…
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MONEY REIMAGINED: Bitcoin in Nigeria: Where Western Business Models Go to Die
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In what has become a de facto world tour of crypto hot spots, this week “Money Reimagined” is headed to Nigeria. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io and The Sun Exchange. We talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs – Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa, and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator – about the burgeoning cry…
With BTC stabilizing around $56K and a look at why the U.S. should stop dragging its feet on bitcoin ETFs, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup. Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here. This episode is sponsored by hellointerpop.io, bybit.com and unfederalreserve. Today's stories: Rally in Transportation Stocks N…
