BREAKDOWN: Citadel Is Coming to Crypto
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A check-in on crypto’s institutional narrative.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus, FTX US and Cointelli.
While much of the recent focus of “The Breakdown” has been on the relationship between crypto and geopolitics, today’s episode revisits the institutional narrative that drove industry adoption in 2020 and 2021. NLW looks at Citadel CEO Ken Griffin’s recent comments on crypto, numerous TradFi execs taking jobs in crypto and a Big Four accounting firm buying NFTs to position itself to help with corporate NFT strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | The notable thing to me is that this isn't Bitcoin as some big announcement, some indeterminate |
| 0:05.7 | purchase that's mostly meant for headlines. In fact, it's the exact opposite. This is someone |
| 0:10.6 | who's trying to build, in their words, a fortress-like balance sheet that has decided that |
| 0:15.6 | some part of that $1.6 billion needed to be contained in Bitcoin and only revealed that when asked directly. |
| 0:22.8 | I think this shows the shift and in some ways connects the dots between the macro bid and |
| 0:27.8 | the geopolitical bid. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:34.5 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:40.5 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:48.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, March 2nd, and today we are revisiting the institutional narrative in crypto. That has, of course, |
| 0:57.0 | been sidelined due to the geopolitical narrative. But as Citadel gets into this space, it's worth |
| 1:02.5 | checking back in on. But before we do that, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go |
| 1:06.9 | subscribe, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, come join the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to |
| 1:15.1 | bit.combe, breakdown pod. Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them being a sponsor |
| 1:21.3 | of the show, I also work with FTX. Finally, one special sponsor this week, just in time for tax time, is CoinTeli. |
| 1:32.2 | Cointelli is here to make crypto tax reporting stress-free for both individuals and accountants. |
| 1:37.5 | Designed by CPAs, Cointeli supports hundreds of crypto platforms and provides accurate calculations |
| 1:42.9 | so you don't pay any extra on your taxes. |
| 1:45.8 | Cointelli also charges no added fees for up to 100,000 transactions and offers 24-7 customer |
| 1:51.9 | support from tax advisors. Check them out at cointeli.com. That's coin t-E-L-L-I.com. Thanks to |
| 1:59.5 | CoinTeli for joining as a sponsor of The Breakdown this week. |
| 2:03.1 | All right, to today's show. As you guys know, I've gone over a couple times one of the big |
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