BREAKDOWN: BlackRock’s Larry Fink Says Ukraine Conflict Could Accelerate Digital Currencies
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Plus a look at other key institutional, geopolitical and industry stories.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at recent comments from the leader of the world’s largest asset manager on Ukraine and digital currencies, as well as other important updates from the crypto industry, including India’s passing of a finance bill with crypto taxation and El Salvador’s delay of their bitcoin bond.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, March 26th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 0:29.1 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe, |
| 0:34.0 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:38.9 | come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit.ly |
| 0:44.3 | slash breakdown pod. Also a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:50.0 | I also work with FTX. Finally, one more thing before we get into this weekly recap. |
| 0:57.6 | If you haven't bought your tickets yet, I highly suggest you check out CoinDesks Consensus |
| 1:02.5 | 2022, which is happening this year in Austin, Texas for the first time. |
| 1:07.9 | It's going down June 9th through June 12th. |
| 1:10.4 | This event is one of the biggest |
| 1:11.7 | in the industry and has a ton of topics that cross-cut everything this industry touches. |
| 1:17.6 | The speakers are great from Kathy Wood to Sam from FtX to CZ to anon thought leaders like |
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| 1:35.0 | coin desk.com slash consensus 2022. All right, this is a true weekly recap. We're going to talk |
| 1:41.0 | institutions. We're going to talk geopolitics, inflation, macro, and stuff from the industry specifically. |
| 1:47.3 | And we're going to start with institutions, although it sort of combines geopolitics as well. |
| 1:52.4 | Larry Fink wrote a letter to BlackRock investors about everything going on in Ukraine with a somewhat surprising conclusion. |
| 1:59.7 | And given that BlackRock is the world's largest |
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