BREAKDOWN: Can Bitcoin Stay Bipartisan?

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4.7 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The more politicians get invested, the harder it will be. This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US. This week on the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at the rising partisan tension around bitcoin, highlighting Sen. Ted Cruz’s recent appearance at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference. - Nexo is a powerful, all-in-one crypto platform where you can securely store your crypto. Invest, borrow, exchange and earn up to 18% APR on Bitcoin and 20+ other top coins. Insured for $375M. Audited in real-time by Armanino. Rated excellent on Trustpilot. Get started today at nexo.io. - Arculus™ is the next-gen cold storage wallet for your crypto. The sleek, metal Arculus Key™ Card authenticates with the Arculus Wallet™ App, providing a simpler, safer, and more secure solution to store, send, receive, buy, and swap your crypto. Buy now at getarculus.com. - FTX US is the safe, regulated way to buy Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors and trade ETH and SOL NFTs with no gas fees and subsidized gas on withdrawals. Sign up at FTX.US today. - “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. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Vision” by OBOY. Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images News, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:53.9	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.
1:04.8	The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
1:12.5	What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, February 26th, and that means it's time for the weekly
1:18.5	recap. However, before we get into the show, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go
1:23.9	subscribe to it, give it five stars, leave a nice review, or if you want to get deeper
1:28.0	into the conversation, come join us at the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to
1:33.4	bit.combe, breakdown pod. Also, as always, a disclosure. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show,
1:41.5	I also work with FTX. So what we're going to do today is go quickly
1:46.5	through a set of stories from the crypto space that were pushed out of focus, obviously,
1:51.0	by bigger geopolitical events. And then we're going to come to a main question, which is whether
1:55.7	Bitcoin can stay bipartisan. Let's start, however, back a week ago on Friday night when everyone started
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