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 transcribedAlex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a powerful voice for the role of bitcoin in combating authoritarian...
Cities around the country have been engulfed in protest in the wake of the murder of 46-year-old black man George Floyd. There is an intense battle fo...
The week's episodes in one convenient file. Monday | Best of April/May (not included in Weekly Recap) Tuesday | Deglobalization and Other Narrati...
As the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about the battle for the future of money? Does the doll...
You know the meme: Money printer go brrr. It means inflation right? Not necessarily, says Brent Johnson. Since 2016-2017, Johnson has been arguing t...
Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? Acc...
The battle to control narratives is the battle to shape how people understand the world around them. But the traditional gatekeepers of narratives - t...
Highlights from some of the most interesting conversations on The Breakdown from the last two months. 4/1 - Peter Zeihan on why the world we’ve kno...
The complete week's shows in one convenient episode Monday | Economic Freedom in the World After Capital, feat. Albert Wenger Tuesday | Lessons fro...
On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first time since August 2017 that any bitcoin from earl...
The European Union and the euro are part of the most ambitious political and economic experiment of the 21st century. The COVID-19 crisis, however, ha...
The dollar has a unique role in the world due to its reserve currency status. For many years that status has created incredible opportunities for the...
Jamie Catherwood works at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative long-equity investment firm. More importantly, however, he is the finance his...
Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “World After Capital” is an evolving digital book pr...
The complete week's shows in one convenient file Monday | The Great Monetary Inflation: Paul Tudor Jones' Complete Case For Bitcoin Tuesday | How...
Niall Ferguson has called this moment an “age of experimentation” when it comes to currencies. One of the unique features of this moment is the exper...
This is the second in a series of episodes on how the economic crisis is challenging and transforming different industries. NLW looks at: Movies...
Two powerful and diametrically opposed forces are shaping the economy. On the one hand is inflationary economic policy, which keeps the price of ass...
There is a shared sense that the world has shifted. Now begins the messy work of figuring out what it means for the future we’re headed into. This l...
Jones' letter lays out his bitcoin and macro thesis. Last week, investing legend Paul Tudor Jones rocked the world of crypto and traditional markets...
