BREAKDOWN: Safe Haven From Banks? Bitcoin’s New Narrative Comes Into View
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Banks down, bitcoin up and, boom, a narrative is born.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW combines two previous YouTube shows focused on Balaji’s $1 million bitcoin bet and the emergence of the mainstream narrative of bitcoin as a safe haven from banks.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced and narrated by Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Michele Musso and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsor today is “Foothill Blvd” by Sam Barsh. Image credit: Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.
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| 0:41.3 | Music dot coin.com and join coin desk at consensus 2023. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:49.3 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is |
| 0:56.0 | produced and distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, March 25th, and that |
| 1:03.0 | means it's time for the weekly recap. On this week's show, we are talking about Bitcoin's new |
| 1:07.8 | narrative. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, |
| 1:11.1 | please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into |
| 1:14.8 | the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go |
| 1:19.0 | to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. All right, guys, well, today we are doing something a little bit |
| 1:25.0 | different. I am traveling this week, so I wanted to make |
| 1:27.5 | sure that there were shows here, and I didn't miss any episodes, but I'm actually going to be |
| 1:31.8 | putting together two YouTube shorts today that I did to make what I think is one complete story. |
| 1:38.0 | For those of you who haven't caught it yet, I've been doing a little bit shorter, faster episodes |
| 1:42.1 | just to keep up with the pace of news that are going up |
| 1:44.8 | on YouTube. Sometimes I use them as a way to experiment with things that I want to explore on |
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