BREAKDOWN: A Surprise Crypto Bill Veto in California
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says no to a bill that passed the Assembly 71-0.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW looks a set of recent crypto news, including:
- A veto of California’s version of New York’s BitLicense bill
- A new DARPA initiative to study crypto as a national security issue
- IRS issues “John Doe” summons on crypto tax issues
- Tension around the CFTC as lead crypto regulator
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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. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, September 26th, and today we are catching up on the |
| 0:28.0 | crypto news, starting with a surprise veto in California. Before we get into that, however, |
| 0:33.7 | if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, |
| 0:37.5 | or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. |
| 0:41.8 | You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:45.7 | Also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:51.5 | All right, folks, happy Monday and boy oh boy, the fear of last week is definitely |
| 0:57.2 | creeping into this week's beginning as well. Last night, there were absolute fireworks in the |
| 1:02.7 | foreign exchange and currency markets specifically around the British pound. Alex Kruger |
| 1:07.4 | put it in historical context. Last night's GB flash crash, he writes, was almost as large as |
| 1:13.2 | the infamous Soros-driven Black Wednesday of 1992. September 16th, 1992, down 4.8%. September 26th, |
| 1:21.3 | 2002, down 4.3%. The pound hit an all-time low against the dollar around $1.039 to the pound. |
| 1:29.7 | A big theme, in fact, this week that we'll be discussing is the dollar wrecking ball, |
| 1:33.8 | and what it means that the dollar is so strong versus absolutely everything right now. |
| 1:38.9 | Another theme that continues to grow in the public consciousness is the Golden Handcuffs |
| 1:42.8 | real estate discussion that we talked about |
| 1:44.4 | last week. This was summed up in a viral tweet from John F. Carter who wrote, |
| 1:49.0 | Housing supply question, is anyone who locked in a sub 3% mortgage going to sell their home |
| 1:53.9 | so they can get a new house with a 6% mortgage? Overall, it just feels to me like there's something |
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