BREAKDOWN: Oslo Freedom Forum and Why Bitcoin Matters
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The annual conference showcases people and ideas working to increase freedom throughout the world.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW looks at a number of topics from across the crypto space and wider economy, including:
- New Fed data about the percentage of Americans using crypto.
- Wall Street’s banking lobby getting nervous about central bank digital currencies.
- The European Central Bank’s latest paper about crypto and systemic risk.
- Institutional outflows.
- Bitcoin’s appearances at the Oslo Freedom Forum.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsors is “Catnip” by Famous Cats and “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: RomoloTavani/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Years ago, when I got into Bitcoin, it was driven by imagining what it would have been like |
| 0:05.3 | for the Sudanese refugees I was working with back in Cairo in 2004 to have Bitcoin |
| 0:10.4 | as a tool as they fled their country due to conflict. |
| 0:14.0 | So many years later, it's really exciting to see that both advocates for freedom generally, |
| 0:18.8 | as well as just people who have been put in untenable |
| 0:21.2 | circumstances, are actually finding Bitcoin valuable in exactly those ways. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the |
| 0:34.2 | big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near NFTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:44.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, May 24th, and today we are talking about all sorts of things |
| 0:51.7 | in the crypto space. But before we dive into all of these topics, a quick |
| 0:57.9 | housekeeping note. There are two ways to listen to the breakdown podcast. You can hear it on the |
| 1:03.5 | Coin Desk podcast network, which features the breakdown alongside other great Coin desk shows, |
| 1:09.1 | or you can listen on the breakdown-only feed, which comes |
| 1:11.8 | out the same day just a few hours later in the evening. Wherever you listen to the show, I would |
| 1:16.6 | so appreciate it if you take a moment to give it a rating or a review. It makes a big difference |
| 1:21.5 | in helping people discover the show. Lastly, a disclosure as always, in addition to them being |
| 1:26.5 | a sponsor of the show, I also work with |
| 1:28.5 | FTX. So today is a bit of a hop-skip and a jump around topics, both in the crypto space as well as |
| 1:35.4 | the wider economy, capped with some notes from that other big event going on this week, the Oslo |
| 1:41.4 | Freedom Forum. First up, some interesting notes from the Federal Reserve |
| 1:45.7 | on crypto in America. The Fed released its annual economic well-being report, and in it |
| 1:52.0 | focused significant energy on crypto for the first time. According to the report, last year in |
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