BREAKDOWN: Dylan LeClair on Bitcoin Data Where Macro Meets Micro
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🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The on-chain analyst reveals why understanding bitcoin is a cheat code.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
Today, NLW kicks off his “Gratitude for Bitcoin” three-part miniseries with Bitcoin Magazine and UTXO Management bitcoin analyst Dylan LeClair.
Find Dylan on Twitter: @DylanLeClair_
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| 0:00.0 | Like, even Michael Gurrey doesn't understand Bitcoin derivatives. |
| 0:02.5 | He's like, do you have to collateralize crypto shorts? |
| 0:06.6 | That was like a pretty aha moment for me. |
| 0:08.3 | I was like, oh my God, this isn't just misunderstood by just, you know, newbies. |
| 0:12.3 | Like, one of the greatest speculators ever doesn't understand a clue. |
| 0:16.3 | Like, he has no idea. |
| 0:18.0 | Digging into that is kind of its own rabbit hole in itself. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:26.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:33.3 | The Breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:39.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, November 24th, and today we are starting something a little |
| 0:45.3 | bit different. For the next few days, I'm going to be doing something I'm calling a gratitude for |
| 0:50.1 | Bitcoin miniseries. It is, of course, a Thanksgiving-themed show, and it will take place on Wednesday, |
| 0:56.0 | Friday, and Saturday. That means that on Thursday, which is, of course, Thanksgiving in the U.S., |
| 1:01.3 | there will not be a show. Now, it's been more than 500 days since last there wasn't a show, |
| 1:08.0 | but it was time to break the streak, and Thanksgiving, a day for |
| 1:11.6 | quiet and gratitude and contemplation seemed like an okay day. I'll be back on Friday, like I said, |
| 1:18.1 | and then Saturday and Sunday, and then on and on forever and ever, amen. The idea of this |
| 1:23.2 | gratitude for Bitcoin miniseries is to explore things that are shaping the Bitcoin ecosystem |
| 1:27.8 | right now with some of the folks who are most involved in both shaping that ecosystem as |
| 1:32.6 | well as chronicling it. The first up is Dylan Leclair. And if you listen regularly, you've |
| 1:38.2 | heard me quote Dylan. He works at Bitcoin Magazine and UTXO management and has quickly |
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