BREAKDOWN: After Bitcoin Maximalism
CoinDesk Podcast Network
CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A Twitter debate sparks much reflection.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads and reflects on Nic Carter’s “Setting the Record Straight.”
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsors is “The Now” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Roc Canals/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:04.5 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:12.4 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, July 3rd, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 1:18.0 | And oh boy, are we getting spicy today? |
| 1:21.7 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 1:25.7 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you |
| 1:28.0 | want to dig deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. It's a place where |
| 1:33.2 | people actually discuss things without everything devolving into stupid personal invective, |
| 1:38.5 | which as you'll see is kind of hard to come by. So come on over to bit.ly slash breakdown pod |
| 1:43.5 | and have fun with us. Lastly, a disclosure as |
| 1:46.7 | always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. In case it's not |
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