BREAKDOWN: Are We on the Verge of a New Regulatory Era in Crypto?
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🗓️ 3 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Recapping this week’s congressional hearing and more on “The Weekly Recap.”
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap," NLW looks at:
- Why this week’s congressional hearing suggests elected officials are taking crypto more seriously
- A slate of CBDC news from around the world
- The beginning of a new macro narrative for Ethereum and DeFi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:16.2 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, July 3rd. It's a holiday weekend, a sadly rainy one for those of us on the East Coast, but a holiday weekend nonetheless. |
| 0:31.0 | So let's keep this weekly recap brief. Let's start with the regulatory landscape. |
| 0:36.6 | On Wednesday, the show was all about what seems to be |
| 0:39.2 | potentially a shifting tone among regulators around digital assets in the U.S. There were two things |
| 0:44.4 | we talked about specifically. The first were comments by Bill Foster, a co-chair of the Congressional |
| 0:48.9 | Blockchain Caucus, that many of his colleagues were ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater |
| 0:53.2 | when it came to crypto. |
| 0:54.7 | The reason? Ransomware. |
| 0:56.9 | His answer, cryptographic backdoors, is available to certain judges and authorities. |
| 1:02.6 | Truly, there is nothing authorities love more than backdoors. |
| 1:06.4 | This is, of course, a non-starter. |
| 1:08.3 | The one thing that makes blockchain's trustworthy is their immutability. |
| 1:12.0 | Compromise on that, and we might as well just pack it up. Of course, just packing it up is likely |
| 1:17.1 | what a fair few in Congress want. On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing |
| 1:22.0 | titled America on Fire. Will the crypto frenzy lead to financial independence and early |
| 1:26.6 | retirement or financial ruin? I gave you the rundown of some of the themes thatzy lead to financial independence and early retirement or financial ruin? |
| 1:29.4 | I gave you the rundown of some of the themes that were likely to be on display. |
| 1:33.0 | One of the most interesting was questions of were there new systemic risks, created by |
| 1:37.1 | crypto market volatility, as more hedge funds and other traditional financial actors got involved. |
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