BREAKDOWN: 13 Years On, The Meaning of ‘Chancellor on the Brink of Second Bailout for Banks’
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The genesis block “Easter egg” provided the beginning of an ideology for the nascent network.
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Thirteen years ago today, Satoshi released the Bitcoin genesis block - block 0. Embedded in it was a quote, “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." In today’s episode, NLW explores the meaning and historical context of the inclusion.
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| 0:00.0 | Bitcoin, as I mentioned, was a very different type of protest. It made a determination on the root |
| 0:05.3 | cause of the problem of this system, in this case at the most surface level, the ability for |
| 0:10.7 | a central bank to even consider bailing out a traditional financial institution. Instead of just |
| 0:16.1 | calling that out, Bitcoin actually offered an alternative to how the system was designed. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:26.9 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:32.6 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:40.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, January 3rd. Welcome to the first work week of the new year. |
| 0:48.9 | Now, today is a day of much historical significance in Bitcoin, and I'm excited to do a little bit of a |
| 0:56.8 | retrospective historical episode. First, though, a little housekeeping. First up, sponsors. This show is |
| 1:03.8 | sponsored by nexo.io, the all-and-one crypto platform for storing and earning interest on your |
| 1:08.8 | crypto, Abra, a simple and secure app for |
| 1:11.6 | trading crypto and getting crypto collateralized loans, and FTCX, the safe, regulated way to |
| 1:16.6 | buy digital assets with up to 85% lower fees than competitors. And of course, as a disclosure, |
| 1:22.6 | I also help run marketing at FTX. Second, how you guys can support the show. First, rate, review, subscribe, |
| 1:30.5 | all of those things actually really help people discover the show, which is good for growing the |
| 1:35.0 | community of listeners around. Speaking of which, if you want to join the community, the best place |
| 1:39.8 | to have discussions around these topics, other types of things you want to see on the show, |
| 1:44.9 | macro topics, anything really at all, come join the Breakers Discord. |
| 1:49.1 | The link is in the bio, and it's a growing community with a lot of really interesting |
| 1:52.5 | perspectives that I'm really enjoying. |
| 1:54.5 | But now to the show. |
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