BREAKDOWN: NFTs, Markets and What Happens Next
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🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A sample of the most interesting threads from Crypto Twitter.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, FTX US and MELD.com.
On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday," NLW reads three threads:
- Justin Kan on why NFTs are a better business model for games
- RAC on what NFT skeptics should know
- Chris Burniske on the 2022 crypto outlook
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, February 13th. Happy Super Bowl Sunday. I hope you guys are |
| 0:28.8 | watching the game. We will discuss what you see tomorrow. But for now, we are doing Long |
| 0:34.7 | Reads Sunday. Before that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go |
| 0:39.7 | subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dig deeper into the |
| 0:43.7 | conversation, join the Breakers Discord. You can find the link to that in the show notes, or you can go |
| 0:49.3 | to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. A disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also |
| 0:57.6 | work with FTX. Finally, a last note before we dive into today's show, this week I have been |
| 1:05.3 | incredibly happy to have a special sponsor in Meld. If you've ever wondered how the rich are able to spend their |
| 1:12.5 | money and still stay rich, well, it's because they borrow against their assets. Meld is creating |
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| 1:24.3 | way. Users of Meld's protocol will be able to borrow dollars, euros, and other |
| 1:28.9 | fiat currencies against their cryptocurrencies. If you want to learn more about the first |
| 1:33.2 | defy non-custodial banking protocol today, go check out Meld.com. That's MELD.com. And thanks again |
| 1:41.5 | to Meld for their sponsorship and support of the show. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay, so for today, we're doing a thing that I actually really enjoy on these Long Read Sundays, |
| 1:51.1 | which is putting together a bunch of Twitter threads as the content of the show. |
| 1:56.1 | Now, for anyone who's been following me for a really long time, Longreed Sunday has in fact gone through multiple |
| 2:02.2 | iterations. And where it started was a thread of great Twitter thread. So this is sort of a return to its roots. |
| 2:09.2 | I'm going to start with a thread from Justin Kahn, but I'm actually going to start with a tweet that |
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