BREAKDOWN: Elizabeth Warren has Declared War on Crypto
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Massachusetts Senator is touting ‘building an anti-crypto army’ in a new campaign ad.
“Then they fight you” but for real this time. Elizabeth Warren is running for re-election to the Senate, and she’s running on the platform of being a crypto antagonist. NLW explores the reactions from the crypto community.
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| 0:44.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:49.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:55.1 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:59.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, March 31st, and today we're talking about Elizabeth Warren |
| 1:05.5 | declaring war on crypto. A quick note before we dive in, there are two ways to listen to the breakdown podcast. |
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| 1:28.4 | All right, folks, well, happy Friday and not just Friday, but the last day of the month |
| 1:33.7 | and the last day of the quarter. And boy, what a quarter it was. Going into this year, |
| 1:39.5 | the smart money was betting on a pretty rough time of it. December was all just the very beginning of cleanup of |
| 1:45.4 | the fallout of FTX, and nearly everyone assumed that there would be a big, loud, and |
| 1:49.8 | potentially price-depressing regulatory response as well. Well, folks were right about the antagonism, |
| 1:55.6 | as is the subject of today's show, but boy were the bears wrong about the price. |
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