BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Is the Most Illiquid It’s Ever Been – 12 Numbers That Tell the Current Story of Markets
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🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
From growth in Lightning Network capacity to outstanding stablecoin supply, a numerical tour.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
NLW looks at the current state of crypto markets through numbers, including:
- Bitcoin illiquid supply
- Lightning Network capacity
- Evergrande’s debt
- The total value of CryptoPunks
- And more
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| 0:00.0 | when this is an asset class that is used to 10, 20% drops in an hour that are amplified over a course of days, |
| 0:07.3 | and function relatively orderly relative to what you would imagine and recover in turn, |
| 0:12.1 | all the while without putting their hands out asking for a bailout like traditional finance. |
| 0:17.2 | Regulators are allowed to be concerned about whatever they're going to be concerned about, |
| 0:21.0 | but I keep coming back to the fact of when it comes to crypto markets right now, which investors |
| 0:25.7 | are asking for their protection. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on |
| 0:34.5 | macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:40.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:46.4 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 24th. |
| 0:49.7 | And today I have an interview that had to be rescheduled at the last minute, and so I had to pull a quick |
| 0:57.1 | audible. |
| 0:58.4 | Now, if I were a smarter man, what I would do is I would have a number of Evergreen episodes |
| 1:02.7 | just sitting around ready to slot in for circumstances exactly like this. |
| 1:07.0 | There are so many good ones out there, a primer on the Lightning Network, a look at stable |
| 1:12.2 | coins and what their history is and what they mean, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:16.2 | However, doing a daily podcast means that you don't have a lot of time for planning ahead. |
| 1:21.0 | So, instead we're going to adapt, and we're going to do an episode that I actually think |
| 1:24.7 | is a really fun way to look at things. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm going to do The Story that I actually think is a really fun way to look at things. I'm going to do the story of markets in 12 numbers. |
| 1:31.6 | So I've gone through, I've looked at a bunch of different parts of the crypto industry as a whole, |
| 1:35.9 | and I'm going to use numbers to sort of summarize or give a sense of where things are. |
| 1:40.7 | This is across the whole crypto space. |
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