BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is Coming to Your 401(k)
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The latest in institutional investor sentiment and action in crypto.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the institutional side of the crypto industry, focusing on:
- A fascinating new sentiment survey from Bitstamp
- Fidelity’s plans to add bitcoin to 401(k) plans
- Goldman Sachs exploring financial asset tokens
- Dragonfly raises $650 million with concentration of endowments
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: AlexSava/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:00.0 | I think this is a huge deal. |
| 0:01.8 | One of the easiest, sure, why not add a little adoption mechanisms we've ever seen? |
| 0:06.4 | I also think that in our current context, that employers are going to be looking for any edge to keep talent. |
| 0:13.5 | Bitcoin and your retirement accounts may not seem like a big thing. |
| 0:17.1 | But some companies will definitely see it as a tool to signal to their younger employees, |
| 0:22.5 | their Gen Z and millennial employees that they get it. And I think they'll be successful if they do so. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the |
| 0:35.9 | Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexus. on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:38.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:46.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, April 28th, and today we are talking in the latest |
| 0:52.2 | in post-narrative industrialization. |
| 0:55.2 | Before we get into that, however, a quick reminder. |
| 0:57.8 | There are two ways to listen to the breakdown. |
| 1:00.5 | You can listen on the CoinDest Crypto Podcast Network feed, which features both the breakdown |
| 1:04.6 | as well as other great CoinDesk shows, or you can listen on the Breakdown-only feed. |
| 1:09.6 | They both come out the same day, but the Coin desk feed comes out in the afternoon, |
| 1:12.9 | while the breakdown only feed comes out in the evening. |
| 1:15.6 | In either case, if you're enjoying the show, definitely subscribe, rate, review it. |
| 1:19.9 | It helps people discover the show. |
| 1:21.8 | And finally, a disclosure as always. |
| 1:23.9 | In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 1:29.0 | So we have been heavy on the geo-regulatory side, and understandably so. We had the second nation to officially |
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