The ironic thing and the thing that shows just how far we've gotten away from being able to have hard conversations

is that I think there's a lot of folks who I'm seeing on both sides of this who feel like the central issue

is their inability to express their full perspective for fear of retribution and reprisal.

When people of all political persuasions feel that, you know you have a system that is

really, really screwed up. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on

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and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 29th,

and today something interesting happened. I joked this morning on Twitter that my podcast today

was going to be called Everyone's Angry at Everyone for Everything, and that's really what it has felt like for the last few days

on Twitter. We have infighting in the Bitcoin community, we have a defy hack that people are

throwing blame around, and of course we have the reactions to this Coinbase post about effectively

saying that employees need to be silent politically,

at least on company time. I went to record a show today that was half about the Defy hack

and half about the Coinbase post and the response to it. What I found, however, is that they're

each big enough subjects on their own to really be their own thing. And frankly,

I try to think about subjects that would be interesting for everyone who listens, but I realize

that these are areas that may have really divergent focuses for different sets of breakdown listeners.

Because of that, I'm doing something that I've never done before, and I'm actually splitting

today's podcast into two.

The first is about Coinbase and their new No Politics at Work Policy and whether it can

actually work. This has created an incredible amount of conversation and controversies,

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