BREAKDOWN: Can a Solana Phone Beat the Bear?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Plus a look at yesterday’s congressional hearing about the CFTC taking more authority around crypto.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW looks at two big events:
- Congress held a committee meeting about the role of the CFTC in regulating and overseeing the crypto industry
- Solana announced a new crypto-native mobile development stack as well as an Android phone called the Solana Saga
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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 sponsors is “Catnip” by Famous Cats and “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: MR.Cole_Photographer/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:49.8 | I think that the point here is that the discourse is finally evolving to a place where |
| 0:53.9 | this is the level of granularity that the discourse is finally evolving to a place where this is the |
| 0:54.4 | level of granularity that the conversation is taking place at. When push comes to shove, we are |
| 0:59.3 | no longer just in the world of big fuzzy talking points, whether pro or fud. The people who are |
| 1:05.2 | actually involved in making decisions are dealing with things like disclosure systems in the context |
| 1:10.3 | of a non-chain environment. |
| 1:11.9 | I think that's bullish. |
| 1:14.4 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:18.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:24.4 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FTX, and produced and distributed by |
| 1:29.6 | CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, June 24th, and today we are talking about two |
| 1:37.0 | very different topics that both shed some interesting light on the current state of the crypto |
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