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The Breakdown

Do Kwon Goes To Jail

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Business, Investing

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On this episode of crypto shennanigans, Do Kwon sentenced to four months for fake passport; ZachXBT raises $1M to fight lawsuit; Sam still going on trial in October (despite viral tweets saying otherwise).  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW

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0:00.0

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.

0:09.3

It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

0:18.2

What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, June 20th, and today we are doing a bad guy roundup.

0:26.0

Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it,

0:30.7

give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation,

0:34.6

come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to

0:38.0

bit.ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, happy Tuesday. If you've been on Twitter today,

0:44.4

you've probably noticed that there is a lot of chatter about institutional engagement. Frank Chaparro

0:50.3

from the block wrote, BlackRock, Fidelity, Citadel, they're all making big moves into

0:55.1

crypto despite the Gensler crackdown. Interesting. Dot, dot, dot. Now, the specific context for this

1:02.0

is a new exchange backed by Schwab and Citadel that's just come online. More broadly, I think

1:07.7

that we are returning to this post-narrative institutionalization

1:11.3

that was a big theme for the show in 2022, pre-FTX, and I'm not sure how post-narrative

1:17.8

it is anymore.

1:19.1

However, I've been working on a larger piece about that institutional trend, so we'll

1:22.7

circle back to that in a full episode soon.

1:25.6

Today, as I said, we have some updates on 2022 cleanup and general

1:30.9

bad behavior, and we start with an update on disgraced terra founder, Doe Kwan. Doe has been found

1:36.6

guilty of document forgery and sentenced to four months in jail by a court in Montenegro.

1:42.1

The Terraform Labs founder was arrested in the Balkan Nation in

1:44.8

March, alongside fellow Terraform Labs executive Han Chang-June when the pair were caught traveling

1:49.4

using fake passports. Authorities found on the two a pair of Costa Rican passports, as well as two

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