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1990 episodes transcribedOn this edition of The Friday Five with Scott Melker, NLW discusses why this week was the week that truly entered the political mainstage. Today's Sh...
Former President Trump held an event at Mar-a-lago for Trump NFT holders that served as a coming out party for his courting the crypto vote. NLW explo...
Major confusion in the cryptosphere as Grayscale withdraws an ETF application that had been widely assumed to be just the means to an end of another l...
Robinhood is the latest crypto-aligned company to be targeted by the SEC. In today's episode NLW explores why the crypto community is more surprised b...
Over the weekend, a vibe shift started where Bitcoiners are climbing out of some of their gloomier predictions from the past few weeks and looking a b...
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/01/sell-in-may-and-go-away-the-seasonality-of-crypto-asset-returns/ Tod...
Powell says no rate cuts for the time being, but definitely no rate hikes either. Even as markets (and media) are starting to push a stagflation narra...
NLW explores the latest crypto arrest -- this time of early Bitcoin advocate (and later Bitcoin big blocker villain) Roger Ver. Additionally, Coinbase...
NLW discusses the lead up to the hearing as well as the community's response to the sentence. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger - 5% to Bitcoin...
Is the US government coordinated crackdown back? This time it seems focused on self-custody. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger - 5% to Bitcoin D...
A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/04/19/bitcoin-will-power-the-next-defi-summer/ Today's Show Bro...
The US continues its assault on crypto mixers. NLW explores the community reactions -- the good, bad and ugly. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger...
NLW covers the SEC lawyers who are taking the fall for the larger Debt Box case, which led to the SEC being censured. Today's Show Brought To You By...
For some, the fee war represented how much bitcoin is changing. For others, it was an indication of why we shouldn't be overly concerned about the lon...
A reading and discussion inspired by https://blockworks.co/news/bitcoins-most-promising-least-dramatic-halving and https://blockworks.co/news/bitcoins...
NLW counts down everything from geopolitics to stablecoin legislation to the halving. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger - 5% to Bitcoin Developer...
Senators Lummis and Gillibrand are back with new crypto legislation, this time focused on stablecoins. Bullish, bearish or something in between? Toda...
As malaise sets in, this narrative is taking hold. NLW isn't so sure. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger - 5% to Bitcoin Developers When You Buy h...
NLW does a whistlestop tour of global AI regulation and market updates. Today's Show Brought To You By Ledger - 5% to Bitcoin Developers When You Buy...
Crypto and tradfi markets were already getting hammered heading into the weekend, when new geopolitical instability and conflict made things even shak...
