BREAKDOWN: Meet the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
A new approach to helping Bitcoin developers fight frivolous lawsuits.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW covers:
- The new Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund from Jack Dorsey and others
- Crypto nuggets from 250 pages of former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s emails
- The latest out of the Agriculture and Energy committees in Congress as it relates to crypto regulation
- Crypto hedge funds massively outperform TradFi
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| 0:00.0 | it's hard for me to imagine any scenario in which having a hearing, especially a hearing that |
| 0:05.9 | allows Congresspeople to hear directly from the industry itself, doesn't do more to dispel |
| 0:11.4 | notions around energy that are largely thrown around in the media and in the popular |
| 0:14.9 | consciousness, then make them worse. Knowledge, education, information, the chance to discuss, |
| 0:22.9 | even if it comes with the side of demagoguery is better than the alternative. |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:30.8 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:36.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:44.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, January 13th, and today we are talking about the new Bitcoin |
| 0:50.9 | Defense Fund, along with a number of other topics. First, however, if you are enjoying |
| 0:57.1 | this show, please go subscribe to it, give it five stars, or leave a review. And if you want to get |
| 1:04.1 | deeper into the conversation, we have a popping Discord now. It's bit.ly slash breakdown pod, or that link is in the show notes as well. |
| 1:13.7 | I would love to see you guys there. Please come join. Also, standard disclosure, in addition to them |
| 1:19.7 | being a sponsor, I also work with FTX. Now, there are a bunch of interesting topics today, |
| 1:26.5 | so let's dive right in and let's start |
| 1:29.0 | with the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund. |
| 1:32.0 | This news was not announced in any formal way. |
| 1:35.0 | It wasn't a press release. |
| 1:36.0 | It wasn't a tweet. |
| 1:37.0 | It was just an email from Jack Dorsey to the Bitcoin Dev mailing list. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm going to read it in its completion. |
| 1:43.6 | Two Bitcoin Developers. The Bitcoin community is currently it in its completion. Two Bitcoin developers. The Bitcoin |
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