To the extent that crypto has to interact with the rest of the financial world, there are two ways

in which they can lose their access to key infrastructure such as auditors and banking.

One is regulatory for rules to change in such a way that crypto companies just can't get

banked or can't get audited.

But then there's also the free market way, which is exactly what we're seeing here,

where the risk dramatically outweighs the reward,

and those independent parties aren't willing to do the work on behalf of crypto clients.

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

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circle and crack it, and produced and distributed by coin desk. What's going on, guys? It is Monday December 19th, and today we are catching up on Barry Coins, Sam Extradition, Binance buying Voyager,

Trump NFTs, you name it, we are catching up on it.

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LY slash breakdown pod. All right, friend, as you can hear, I have once again succumbed to a

preschool illness. However, we are not letting that get us down. You're just going to have to deal with a

slightly huskier voice this time. This past weekend was extremely busy as weekends go. You had

berry coins selling, Sam extradition intrigue, an insane World Cup final,

and Elon Musk pissing everyone off changing terms on Twitter, and then making a poll responsible

for his future at the company. So let's see how much we can get through on today's show.

Let's start with the Sam update as it's relatively small. So last week when Sam was arrested on Monday, he appeared willing to fight tooth and nail to

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