BREAKDOWN: Social Media Is Democracy's Faultline... The Breakdown Weekly Recap
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🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
From PayPal crypto confirmed to action in central bank digital currencies, these were six themes shaping the week.
This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com.
On this edition of the Weekly Recap, NLW explores:
- No-volatility bitcoin and DeFi’s big quarter
- An uptick in central bank currency action
- PayPal crypto confirmation
- A China-U.S. rhetoric flare up
- Social media as democracy’s fault line
- In Fed World, is the narrative trade the only trade?
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | The Real Story Behind Tesla’s Crazy Rally
Tuesday | Why Are Execs of Bankrupt Companies Being Rewarded With Millions?
Wednesday | A Primer on the US and China’s ‘New Cold War’
Thursday | No, the Twitter Hack Wasn’t About Bitcoin
Friday | What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond. |
| 0:13.0 | This episode is sponsored by BitStamp and Crypto.com. |
| 0:18.0 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by Coindesk. |
| 0:22.6 | And now, here's your host, NLW. |
| 0:28.4 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:29.5 | It is Saturday, July 18th, and this is the breakdown's weekly recap. |
| 0:35.3 | First of all, I hope that you've had a great week, and if you have been |
| 0:38.2 | enjoying the breakdown, I would so appreciate it if you would go to Apple or wherever you |
| 0:42.5 | listen to podcasts and rate and review this thing. It makes a huge difference to helping new |
| 0:47.6 | people find this show, and it makes a huge difference to me. So thanks for that in advance. |
| 0:52.7 | Second, this week, instead of a single topic, I want to go |
| 0:56.2 | kind of machine gun rapid fire through six topics that I've been thinking about this week. |
| 1:00.9 | You've seen bits and pieces of them throughout the shows, but I wanted to kind of just put a |
| 1:04.9 | little summation on them for your weekend. The first is Bitcoin Bortem and Defy action. So it has been an unbelievably non-volatile |
| 1:14.4 | time for Bitcoin. And I'm fine with this. I'm always more fine than I think a lot of folks with |
| 1:19.7 | periods of low volatility. We get antsy really fast because part of what draws people to this |
| 1:24.9 | space is the way that things can move so quickly. The reality is, |
| 1:28.4 | though, that the world is volatile right now, and so it's taking some of that volatility away from |
| 1:33.2 | this space in some ways. Another piece of it, though, is that markets are in this real holding pattern, |
| 1:38.6 | you know? I think that although we see continued growth in the kind of traditional equities markets, it's not pronounced right now. |
| 1:46.3 | And really, all of the numbers are mixed signals. |
| 1:49.5 | They're really mixed signals. |
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