BREAKDOWN: 'Stacking Sats' vs. 'ETH is Money' - The Memes That Shaped 2019
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CoinDesk
4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
From “digital gold” to “stacking sats” to “ETH is money,” 2019 was a year of narrative battlegrounds and meme warfare. And when every narrative is competing for scarce resources and attention, things are sure to get contentious.
This special episode breaks down Ryan Selkis’ recent list of top ten crypto narratives and adds a few more worthy of note. Does “The Revolution Need Rules?” Is “Dissident Tech” the newest important area of focus.
Topics Covered
The most important memes and narratives of 2019
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| 1:04.0 | Welcome back to the breakdowndown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW. The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome back to a special edition of The Breakdown. |
| 1:13.6 | So today is Wednesday, December 18th, and throughout this week we've been looking at |
| 1:18.6 | crypto narratives in the context of contemporary news and trying to understand how the stories |
| 1:24.6 | closing out the year validate or change and suggest something different about |
| 1:30.2 | the narratives that have defined this year. Well, today we're doing something a little bit different, |
| 1:34.1 | and we're going to actually look at narratives on their own terms. And this was inspired by a post |
| 1:39.5 | by Ryan Selkis, CEO of Masari, who wrote a huge tome, basically with predictions for 2020 as well as |
| 1:48.0 | reflections on 2019. |
| 1:49.7 | And from that extracted something he called the year's top 10 crypto narratives and published |
| 1:54.4 | it on CoinDesk as part of their 2019 year in review. |
| 1:57.4 | So Ryan kind of goes through 10 different narratives or memes that he thinks |
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