BREAKDOWN: The 5 Key Bitcoin Building Themes, With Wolf Lightning Accelerator CEO Kelly Brewster
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
From Lightning infrastructure to Nostr and Ordinals, here’s what one Bitcoin startup accelerator is excited about.
Kelly Brewster is the CEO of Wolf, a new Lightning and Bitcoin startup accelerator in New York City. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss five big themes they’re seeing among Bitcoin builders, including Bitcoin DeFi, Lightning Network infrastructure, gaming, Nostr/social media and ordinals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.4 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:20.0 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:21.2 | It is Friday, March 16th, and today we are talking with Wolf Lightning Accelerator CEO, |
| 0:27.5 | Kelly Brewster. |
| 0:29.0 | Before we get into that, however, one quick note. |
| 0:31.3 | There are two ways to listen to the breakdown. |
| 0:33.2 | You can hear us on the Coin Desk podcast network feed, which comes out every afternoon |
| 0:36.3 | and features other great Coin desk shows, or you can listen on the breakdown-only feed, which comes out a few |
| 0:40.5 | hours later in the evening. |
| 0:41.9 | Wherever you are listening, I would so appreciate it if you would take the time to leave |
| 0:45.0 | a rating or a review, it makes a huge difference. |
| 0:48.2 | All right, friends, while we are living through a fantastic moment in Bitcoin's history. Not only is there huge narrative resonance happening |
| 0:56.6 | as bank bailouts seem to swirl around us, and people are reminded of exactly why Bitcoin |
| 1:02.8 | was originally designed, but there is also just an incredible amount of entrepreneurial energy |
| 1:08.3 | pouring into the space. So today I am joined by Kelly Brewster. |
| 1:13.0 | Kelly is the CEO of the Wolf Lightning Accelerator, which is part of the Nidig and Stone Ridge |
| 1:18.3 | family of Bitcoin companies. You can think of Wolf as kind of like a Y-combinator, |
| 1:22.9 | but just for Lightning and Bitcoin startups. And their first cohort is just about to start, |
| 1:27.3 | and they just announced yesterday that applications for their first cohort is just about to start, and they just |
| 1:27.9 | announced yesterday that applications for their second cohort are open now. On this show, we talk about |
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