BREAKDOWN: Unpacking Arizona's Bitcoin Legal Tender Proposal
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The game theory around states like Texas and Arizona working towards pro-BTC policies.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW looks at a proposal moving through Arizona’s Senate to make bitcoin legal tender. He explores:
- The specifics of the Arizona proposal
- The controversial author of the bill
- A pro-bitcoin battle in the Texas gubernatorial race
- Increasing partisan tension around bitcoin and crypto
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| 0:00.0 | The partisan nature of the U.S. system absolutely eats and destroys every issue that it comes into contact with. |
| 0:08.0 | It demands full allegiance to whatever people think, and it means by default roughly half of the other people are meant to not agree with you on the issue. |
| 0:16.9 | I don't believe that Bitcoin is only for half the people, and I don't want only half the people |
| 0:20.9 | to be interested because of some preemptive partisan stance. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:29.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:35.5 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Ab Abra, and FtX, and produced and |
| 0:40.0 | distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, January 31. We have had a hell |
| 0:48.3 | of a first month of 2022, haven't we? Today is no exception, as we are talking about Arizona's |
| 0:53.8 | Bitcoin legal tender proposal. |
| 0:56.4 | But first, if you were enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe, rate, review, or if you want |
| 1:02.4 | to get into the conversation in a deeper way, join the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in |
| 1:08.3 | the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 1:12.4 | Finally, before we dive in, the standard disclosure, in addition to them being a sponsor of the |
| 1:17.4 | breakdown, I also work with FTX. So, Friday was one of those days where I locked all the shows |
| 1:23.7 | for the weekend and then boom, some great, interesting, fascinating news comes out |
| 1:28.1 | after I'm done, leaving me to wait all weekend to share and discuss with you guys. |
| 1:33.4 | This time, that was news that a state senator in Arizona had introduced a bill to make |
| 1:38.7 | Bitcoin legal tender in the state. So today we're going to discuss the bill itself, |
| 1:43.3 | the game theory around states |
| 1:45.8 | going after pro-Bitcoin consumers and businesses, which includes not only Arizona but Texas |
| 1:50.8 | and some others. We're going to talk about the author of the AZ bill herself, the constitutional |
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