BREAKDOWN: 12 Big-Picture Power Shifts to Watch in 2022
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🗓️ 2 January 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A powerful countdown to kick off the new year.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.
On “The Breakdown’s” first episode of the new year, NLW looks at the most important power shifts that he’s watching this year, including:
- Fed vs. stock market
- U.S. midterm elections
- Stablecoins vs. CBDCs
- China and Russia vs. the dollar
- Bitcoin vs. fiat
- IMF vs. El Salvador
- Bitcoin DeFi vs. other DeFi
- DeFi vs. KYC
- DAOs vs. other forms of capital formation
- NFT/Web 3 games vs. traditional
- NFTs vs. record labels
- Web 3 vs. Web 2
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, January 2nd, 2022. Welcome to the new year. You've survived |
| 0:32.8 | 2021. And the next 365, or I guess four days at this point, are laid out before you to do what you will to achieve, what you want to achieve. |
| 0:45.4 | Let's get after it. |
| 0:48.1 | Originally, this was going to be my last end-of-year extravaganza show. |
| 0:52.3 | But because of this ridiculous wave of COVID that is hitting |
| 0:55.8 | everyone, I had some interviews cancel at the last minute. But I think it works out. Because something |
| 1:02.0 | I've been feeling is that I really wanted to revisit the tagline of the show that you hear |
| 1:07.9 | every episode. This idea that the breakdown is about big picture power shifts. |
| 1:13.8 | That remains the dominant framework that I think in terms of. |
| 1:18.3 | And so what I wanted to do today to kick off the new year was maybe a set of framework for |
| 1:23.3 | some of the big picture power shifts that I'm watching in 2022. |
| 1:28.6 | Before I do that, though, a little bit of housekeeping. |
| 1:32.1 | First of all, you'll notice that I have some new sponsors. |
| 1:36.3 | Before I get into the new folks, I want to thank Nidig for the six awesome months that we just |
| 1:41.5 | had, where they were the sole sponsor of the show. |
| 1:45.0 | Nidig is one of the leading lights of the Bitcoin industry, and I have absolutely no doubt |
| 1:50.0 | that a huge number of people are going to discover Bitcoin for the first time this year |
| 1:55.8 | because of the infrastructure that Nidig helped built last year. I've loved having them as a |
| 2:00.4 | sponsor, |
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