BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Is Thriving, With Alyse Killeen
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Stillmark venture capitalist shares what makes her optimistic about Bitcoin for 2023.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.
Today’s guest is Alyse Killeen, founder and general partner at Stillmark.
Find our guest on Twitter: @AlyseKilleen
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our holiday theme music is "Spike The Eggnog" by Two Dudes. Music behind our sponsors today is “Glasgow” by Falls. Image credit: alashi/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:49.7 | I think that there's been this sort of like reassurance that these values of due diligence |
| 0:57.0 | and of verifying what you're told and of relying on software rules, but then questioning |
| 1:05.0 | rulers are not deferring to people of authority has really served the Bitcoin space well. |
| 1:10.0 | And so that's the silver lining here. |
| 1:13.1 | But this year certainly had very intense competition for sort of worst lesson of the year, |
| 1:19.7 | unfortunately. |
| 1:20.4 | Hopefully next year will be easier because we will have removed so many of these bad actors in 2022. |
| 1:28.4 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:32.7 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:38.6 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Circle, and Cracken, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:48.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, December 26th, and today's guest is Elise Kaleen. |
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