BREAKDOWN: Why One Stablecoin Is Being Backed by Bitcoin
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Plus updates from Russia and Canada.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at:
- The latest from Russia, including skepticism about the effectiveness of the first round of sanctions
- Updates on Canada’s use of the Emergencies Act to freeze protest-associated bank accounts
- Why the UST stablecoin has announced a $1 billion bitcoin reserve
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Vision” by OBOY. Image credit: peepo/E+/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, February 23rd, and today we are discussing a few |
| 0:28.8 | catch-up issues, follow-ups on stories that we've had over the past couple days, as well as looking |
| 0:34.5 | at why one stable coin is going Bitcoin. First, however, if you're enjoying |
| 0:40.1 | the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get |
| 0:44.6 | deeper into the conversation, come join the breakers discord. The conversation is absolutely popping |
| 0:51.3 | off. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.com slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:56.5 | Finally, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work with |
| 1:02.1 | FTX. Now, as I mentioned today, we're going to start by catching up on some recent situations. |
| 1:08.4 | They are all extremely fast evolving, and I want to be a tour guide to |
| 1:12.3 | the insanity that is happening right now. Let's start with Russia and sanctions. To get a sense of |
| 1:18.6 | how things evolved overnight, let's look at just a sample of the headlines. The New York Times |
| 1:23.0 | says Ukraine vows to defend itself as Putin remains defiant. The Wall Street Journal, Ukraine prepares for war, |
| 1:29.0 | urges citizens to leave Russia. The big piece of news is that Ukraine has declared a state of emergency and |
| 1:34.8 | has begun mobilizing reserve troops. Now, where we left off the discussion yesterday around sanctions |
| 1:40.8 | was that we were waiting for the Biden administration to announce what they would be |
| 1:44.5 | doing. Here's the prepared tweets from Biden. The information came out just as I was finishing the show, |
| 1:50.5 | of course, and here are the summary tweets from President Biden. Today, in close coordination with our |
| 1:55.6 | allies and partners, I am announcing the first tranche of sanctions to impose cost on Russia in response to yesterday's |
| 2:01.9 | actions. We will continue to escalate sanctions as Russia escalates. We are implementing full-blocking |
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