BREAKDOWN: The Biggest Story in Crypto and Macro in 2021
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🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
El Salvador? Bitcoin Hashrate Migration? Inflation?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW previews the forthcoming “End of Year Extravaganza” by answering the same questions he’ll be asking a dozen guests in the weeks to come.
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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. |
| 0:16.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, December 16th. And instead of doing the traditional |
| 0:29.7 | weekly recap, as I usually do on Saturdays, instead I'm going to do something that's a little |
| 0:34.9 | bit different. So tomorrow I have my last long read Sunday |
| 0:39.3 | of the year. I'm reading one of the most popular pieces from CoinDesk's op-ed section for the year. But |
| 0:44.7 | after that, through the end of the year, it's the breakdowns end-of-year extravaganza. |
| 0:49.2 | This is a chance for me to interview people that I think are super interesting about the year that |
| 0:53.9 | was in 2021 and |
| 0:55.4 | about what they expect to come in 2022. And as part of that, I write down a whole slew of |
| 1:00.5 | questions that I find interesting and then sort of bob and weave through them based on |
| 1:03.9 | whoever's in the interview. I thought it would be useful, at least for myself, to kind of |
| 1:08.3 | wrap my head around what I think about these things, is to actually |
| 1:11.7 | go answer these questions in something of a similar order. So what I'm going to do is I'm going |
| 1:16.7 | to go rapid fire through this set of questions that I have that are the pool that I draw |
| 1:21.6 | these end-of-year questions from. And I've done no prep for this. So the goal really isn't to interview myself for anything |
| 1:29.1 | weird or indulgent like that. I kind of just think it's fun to answer these questions in |
| 1:33.9 | rapid order, and it will also give me a chance to not spend too much time on my own point |
| 1:38.7 | of view when I'm interviewing everyone else. So let's dive into this barrage of questions from |
| 1:43.4 | the end of year question pool. |
| 1:45.6 | What was the most important economic story of 2021? I think you can take this in a couple different |
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