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 transcribedHuge news broke this morning as PayPal announced it would be offering buying, selling and eventually merchant payments for bitcoin and other cryptos a...
Today on the Brief: DOJ files biggest antitrust case in two decades against Google Goldman Sachs’ 1MDB settlement LINE’s new CBDC platform Ou...
Today on the Brief: Chinese citizens less than impressed with DCEP trial Is Filecoin the “Titanic” of ICOs? Mnuchin, Pelosi go one more round on s...
On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads: “Capital Allocation & Risk Asset Ramifications in a 0% Interest Rate World” The piece examines how diffe...
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 annou...
Today’s Breakdown is a conversation with Andre Anjos – aka RAC, a Grammy Award-winning recording artist and music entrepreneur. He and NLW discuss:...
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...
Today on the Brief: Bitcoin hashrate at all-time highs Record number of large companies lose money during the pandemic JPMorgan releases research...
Today on the Brief: Is the “blue wave” Democrat victory narrative in the presidential election starting to shake up Wall Street? Johnson & Johnson...
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 (Gra...
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...
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 leader...
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. Fig...
A special breaking edition of The Breakdown follows the market’s reaction to Square’s surprise $50 million bitcoin investment. NLW breaks down the f...
Today on the Brief: Stimulus talk shutdown spooks markets House recommends antitrust actions but likely to get nowhere CBDC trial results from Chi...
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 d...
Today on the Brief: Markets gain as Pres. Trump’s condition stabilizes SEC Chairman Clayton sees future where all stocks are tokenized Uniswap had...
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 recap of September, which NLW calls a transitional month between the post-lockdown excitement of the summer and the growing macro insecurity around...
Today on the Brief: Market reaction to Pres.Trump contracting COVID-19 Subpar September jobs report Decentralized exchanges have third straight 10...
