BREAKDOWN: The US Government Attack on Crypto Certainly Seems Coordinated
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
From the SEC to bank regulators, just about everyone is mad at the Coins.
On this edition of Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads “Editorial: It Sure Looks Like the U.S. Is Trying to Kill Crypto” by Kevin Reynolds
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| 0:00.0 | In the wake of one of the most tumultuous years in crypto history, the conversations happening |
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| 0:16.0 | thornyest challenges, and finally deliver on the technology's transformative potential. |
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| 0:44.8 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:49.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:55.1 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 0:59.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, April 2nd, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 1:06.3 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
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| 1:19.4 | All right, friends, happy Sunday. You know, I think when I think about it, when we look back |
| 1:26.1 | at what this week was about, there are a number of possibilities. |
| 1:31.3 | It could be the week that Binance was sued by the CFTC. It might be the week that Doquan was arrested. |
| 1:37.9 | But I think one of the contenders, certainly, is that this was the week that Elizabeth Warren, a U.S. Senator, openly declared war on |
| 1:47.4 | crypto. What do I mean by that? Well, Senator Warren took an article headline from February, |
| 1:53.8 | which read Elizabeth Warren is building an anti-crypto army and put it front and center in her |
| 2:00.6 | fundraising materials for her re-election campaign. |
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