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Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com, BitStamp, and nexo.io, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.

What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 2nd, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday.

For this Long Read, I've chosen a recent post by Meltem de Mirrors, and really, I think the theme here is asking an important

question which can get lost really easily, especially in the swirl of excitement around

price action, like we've had this past week. And that question is simply, what is the future

that we're trying to build Bitcoin for?

How do we want the future that we are building this whole new system to enable to be different from the one that we live in now?

How do we design in such a way that we avoid the traps and the capture that happened in the system,

the things that made us want to build this different alternative in the first place. Some of these questions seem obvious, but they're actually incredibly difficult,

especially as more capital flows into the space, as more power aligns with the space.

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