BREAKDOWN: 'My 401(k) is now my 401(k9)' – What Happens to Doge After Elon Hosts ‘SNL’?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
While everyone was paying attention to Dog Money, bitcoin was quietly accumulating institutional news.
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On this edition of “The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at:
- Why ETH should have had most of the attention
- The camps forming around dogecoin and why it’s likely to dump after “Saturday Night Live”
- A slew of massive institutional bitcoin news that flew under the radar
"Remy: Dogecoin Rap" (Dog Money), ReasonTV
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big-picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.io, neir.org, and genesis trading, and produced and distributed by CoinDess. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, May 8th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 0:28.7 | We've been discussing for a while the idea or notion that this bull market has shifted into some new phase, |
| 0:34.0 | and by all accounts, this should have been Ethereum's week. As Bitcoin's price |
| 0:38.6 | lilted sideways, ETHs soared up to new all-time highs, not just hitting 3,000, but continuing |
| 0:44.6 | to rise, spending most of the week around 3,500. As we've seen number go up and new all-time |
| 0:50.0 | highs breathes life into communities. And the Ethereum this week definitely started to revise their |
| 0:54.9 | estimates up and clearly felt a new wind in their sales. This was only expanded with the launch of |
| 1:00.9 | Uniswap V3, and V3 went off just as well as expected. Creator Hayden Adams tweeted a statistic |
| 1:07.0 | that shows how much the DeFi space has expanded. Quote, in its first day, V3 has |
| 1:13.0 | already seen more than twice the volume that V2 saw in its first month. Yet for all of this, |
| 1:18.6 | Ethereum wasn't the thing sucking the oxygen out of the crypto space. First, we got a good |
| 1:23.9 | reminder of why crypto communities do well to de-emphasize NGU technology as their |
| 1:28.9 | main thing, because there's almost always some other piece of crap pumping more. For example, |
| 1:35.1 | Ethereum Classic ETC is up 234% this week, a literally absurd state of affairs that has no |
| 1:41.5 | explicable logic. Nothing to take the wind out of Ethereum's |
| 1:44.8 | sales like a zombie sibling chain that's been 51% attacked multiple times this year, massively |
| 1:49.8 | outperforming it on price. But still, that really wasn't the thing. Obviously, the thing is Doge. |
| 1:56.2 | I asked earlier this week whether Doge was a triumph or an FU to crypto. By and large, the most common response was both. |
| 2:03.4 | Based on this week, I've actually revised it, and I now think that there are roughly |
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