BREAKDOWN: Bitcoin Payments Coming to Twitter?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A look at the historical context of Bitcoin in Silicon Valley and why today’s news matters.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On today’s episode, NLW takes a historical look at Silicon Valley’s relationship with Bitcoin. NLW explores why so many in Silicon Valley missed Bitcoin in the early days, why smart contracts made more sense to them (and fit with their funding model), and what Jack Dorsey’s support of Bitcoin all means. Finally, he uses that context to explain today’s leaked news that Twitter is building Bitcoin payments into its Tip Jar feature.
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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. |
| 1:05.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, September 1st. Welcome to, if not fall, the beginnings |
| 1:19.0 | of the beginnings of fall. My favorite season, by a lot. So today we're going to be talking |
| 1:24.4 | about Twitter, who is rumored to be bringing lightning payments to their app for tipping. |
| 1:29.5 | When I dug into this, however, I thought that it was really important to give some context. |
| 1:34.9 | We're entering into a moment, a phase in this market cycle, where you're likely to hear a lot |
| 1:40.1 | about how far behind Bitcoin is technologically, how fast everything else is moving. Why none of the |
| 1:47.3 | cool new things in crypto are being built on Bitcoin. You might already be hearing some of that. |
| 1:53.7 | I think it's really important to put this in historical context and also to talk in terms of what |
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