BREAKDOWN: For Bitcoin and Crypto, a Week of Mainstreaming Moments
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On this edition of “The Breakdown” Weekly Recap, NLW looks at a set of mainstream moments including:
- “SNL” doing a song about NFTs
- Visa accepting USDC on Ethereum as a native settlement currency
- PayPal opening crypto checkout to 29 million merchants
- Goldman Sachs opening bitcoin investment programs
- Chipotle’s “bitcoin and burritos” promotion
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:58.8 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:05.6 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io and produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, April 3rd, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 1:18.2 | Now, before I dive into the recap, I hope you enjoyed the replay of my interview with Kathy Wood from last October. |
| 1:25.1 | Obviously, in Bitcoin terms, it has been an absolute century since we had that |
| 1:29.6 | conversation. But because of the long Easter weekend, CoinDesk was technically off Friday, |
| 1:34.3 | and we had to put in a replay show. And I thought so many of you have joined the community |
| 1:38.4 | since January, since the end of December, since even February, that I thought it would be |
| 1:42.9 | really cool to go back and |
| 1:44.2 | replay one of these interviews with one of the most interesting, profound, and successful investors |
| 1:49.1 | of the moment. So hopefully you enjoyed that. We're actually going to have more folks from |
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