BREAKDOWN: Here Are All the Institutions That Bought Bitcoin While You Weren't Paying Attention
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🗓️ 17 April 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A look at the news that flew under the radar this week.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at three key themes:
- The continued institutionalization of bitcoin (and, increasingly, ethereum as well)
- Warning signs of market mania in DOGE and NFT prices
- Global intrigue around bitcoin and central bank digital currencies
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| 0:53.9 | 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. |
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| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, April 17th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 1:20.1 | Now, the three big themes on this week's weekly recap are one, continued institutionalization, |
| 1:30.9 | two, top signals and the first real signs of market mania this bull run, and three, global intrigue. Let's start first with continued |
| 1:38.3 | institutionalization. Of course, the biggest news on this front, the thing that everyone was |
| 1:43.5 | paying attention to all week, was the Coinbase public listing. |
| 1:47.9 | Sadly, it sort of followed the pattern that many of these recent tech IPOs have had, where it popped and then dropped significantly. |
| 1:55.7 | Then again, it was a direct listing, which almost guarantees more volatility. |
| 2:00.7 | Employees and other shareholders |
| 2:02.1 | have no lockups, which means that if you've been waiting for that liquidity event for a good |
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