The Breakdown dives into the deepest topics in crypto, blockchain, and the macro forces shaping markets and power structures. Each episode breaks down complex ideas into clear, grounded analysis — separating signal from noise across crypto, finance, and geopolitics. Hosted by David Canellis, The Breakdown features explainers, interviews, and conversations with the people building, regulating, and challenging the financial system. A Blockworks podcast. Subscribe to The Breakdown newsletter: https://the-breakdown.carrd.co/
1990 episodes transcribedThis episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this edition of “The Breakdown Weekly Recap,” NLW covers: SEC Chair Gensler’s recent comments on crypto enf...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s episode, NLW gets macro with a discussion of a flattening of the yield curve and what increasingly se...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s episode, NLW follows up on the burgeoning bitcoin-mayor competition between New York City’s Eric Adam...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Despite (or perhaps because of) being one of the world’s great traditional financial hubs, New York has a conten...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets has finally released its much-anticipated report on Stablecoi...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. NLW counts down the top 5 things to happen in crypto over the last month, including a DAO buying a Wu Tang clan...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” is a reading of EY Global Blockchain Lead Paul Brody’s latest essay for CoinDesk...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Last weekend, Jack Dorsey set the internet alight when he proclaimed, “Hyperinflation is going to change everyth...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Facebook announced yesterday it is changing its corporate name to Meta. The name change reflects the company’s g...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. NLW today provides 14 different takes on shiba inu coin (SHIB) that reflect the range of perspectives across the...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s episode, NLW does an extended brief, covering: The CFTC Chair arguing for more power to regulate cr...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. 2021 has been the year of crypto regulation. In China, that has manifested as a complete banning of bitcoin mini...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. At Messari’s Mainnet conference in September, rumors flew that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had s...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW tells the story of PleasrDAO buying a one-of-a-kind hip hop album, and what...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW covers: The record-setting performance of the first bit...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Today’s episode is nominally about Worldcoin. The project launched this week with ambitions to airdrop a new cry...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Last year, Paul Tudor Jones wrote a paper called “The Great Monetary Inflation” that would end up creating narra...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the market’s reaction to a new bitcoin all-time high, includ...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On today’s episode, NLW catches up on a variety of topics from the past week, including: How the first day of...
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW rounds out the story of the bitcoin futures ETF process that has dominated crypto...
