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The Breakdown

Binance Withdraws Voyager Offer as Coinbase Sues the SEC

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Both of today's stories are, on some level, about US crypto politics. The first part of the show focuses on Binance US's beleagured and now withdrawn bid for the Voyager Digital assets. Despite a judge overruling US government objections, it appears Binance has decided it's more trouble than it's worth. Coinbase meanwhile, has filed suit against the SEC around that agencies failure to respond to a Coinbase petition filed last year to receive better clarity on which cryptoassets are securities and why.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW “The Breakdown” is written, produced and hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW. Research is by Scott Hill. Editing is by Rob Mitchell and Kyle Barbour-Hoffman. Our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach.

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Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

0:09.3

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

0:18.3

What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, April 26th. And today, we are talking about

0:23.7

Binance basically being done with the U.S. and Coinbase suing the SEC. Now, before we dive in,

0:31.3

a couple quick housekeeping notes. First of all, if you're on Twitter, you might have seen that I

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0:50.9

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1:05.3

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1:11.4

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1:15.5

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1:16.4

Bitcoin Builders has a new episode coming out later today, which I'm very excited about,

1:20.3

and the AI breakdown is putting out episodes every day at this point.

1:24.1

All right.

1:25.0

So to today's show, as you know, yesterday's episode was a big old paradigm shift interview with Real Vision's Raul Paul.

1:32.7

Because of that, we missed a piece of news that has gotten a ton of people excited, which is, of course,

1:38.5

Coinbase's lawsuit against the SEC. Now, I've been talking for over a year about how it feels like the crypto industry's

1:45.6

only viable path at the moment to get resolution on key issues is litigating, and being

1:51.7

specifically willing to litigate against regulators. This is the route that the digital

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