BREAKDOWN: Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito on the Most Important Stories of 2021
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🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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NLW is joined by the founders of Blockworks.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On the final episode of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by Jason Yanowitz and Michael Ippolito, the founders of Blockworks, a growing media company focused on the stories shaping the crypto space.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that this quote-unquote cycle will end with NFTs and Dow's getting way ahead of their skis, |
| 0:06.0 | which I think they kind of are, and a lot of the capital will rotate back into Defi. |
| 0:11.0 | And like the thing that I'm paying attention to right now is I think Defi is massively overlooked right now. |
| 0:17.0 | Like even just the boring old Defi 1.0, I know there's Defy 2.0 and Rari and all these cool things. |
| 0:23.5 | Defy 1.0 is massively overlooked right now. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:33.3 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:39.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:48.2 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, December 31st, and we have reached the end of the breakdowns, end of your extravaganza. |
| 0:57.2 | Now, this has been an insane year on the show. |
| 1:01.2 | Probably because it's been an insane year in the industry. |
| 1:05.1 | We had highs, we had lows, we had some of the most transformational moments in the history of the crypto and Bitcoin |
| 1:12.9 | space. From El Salvador to the great hash rate migration, this has truly been something to |
| 1:20.1 | observe. Now, my guests today are Jason Yanowitz and Michael Epilito. They're the co-founders |
| 1:25.9 | of Blockworks, and are two folks who I've watched |
| 1:28.5 | in this space for years just continue to push themselves and the people they work with around |
| 1:33.6 | them to produce more interesting things, to produce more interesting content, and to generally |
| 1:38.6 | build an even healthier media space for crypto, Bitcoin, and Macrom Media. Given how much content they create and curate |
| 1:46.7 | and have other people create with their various publications and podcasts, it's no wonder that they |
| 1:51.7 | have a really interesting and diverse perspective to bring to these end of your questions. So |
| 1:55.9 | join me in welcoming Jason and Michael to the show, and let's get into it. All right. |
| 2:01.4 | What's going on? |
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