Here for the Bitcoin Revolution or Just the Sick Macro Gains?

The Breakdown

Nathaniel Whittemore

Investing, Business

4.8 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads “Revolution, Macro and Micro: Three Ways to Look at a Bitcoin Investment.” Blumberg argues that as bitcoin and digital assets get more mainstream, the industry would do well to better understand the different philosophies that pull in people. NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M= Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell 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 “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: Vasil Dimitrov/E+/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:08.9	It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.
0:16.2	The breakdown is sponsored by Nidig and produced and distributed by CoinDes.
0:22.6	What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 10th, and that means it's time for Long
0:27.7	Read Sunday. Now, I have been having a ton of fun returning to the Long Read Sunday roots
0:33.6	by reading you guys Twitter threads, but today we're going to do a little something
0:38.5	different. We're going to go back to the essay format. One of the things CoinDesk has been doing
0:44.1	more this year is focusing on helping advisors, financial advisors, get the info that they need to
0:50.7	help their clients get into Bitcoin and digital assets.
1:00.8	This week, I noticed a piece from Adam Blumberg on CoinDesk called Revolution, Macro, and Micro,
1:03.2	three ways to look at a Bitcoin investment.
1:09.8	Adam is the co-founder and chief educator for Interaxis, a company trying to bridge the education gap between digital assets and
1:11.5	traditional finance. He is, I believe, a breakdown listener. So hello, Adam, if you're hearing
1:16.7	this. I know I've interacted with Adam on Twitter a number of times, so I was excited to see
1:21.2	this piece. And I just think it's a great, super simple, heuristic framework, whatever you want to
1:27.2	call it, to help people understand
1:29.2	different doors that new bitcoiners might come through. So again, the piece is called
1:33.7	Revolution, Macro, and Micro, three ways to look at a Bitcoin investment. Let's dive in.
1:40.2	Investment in cryptocurrencies is all the rage, and Bitcoin is clearly the biggest. It has the largest
1:46.1	market capitalization, the most infrastructure, the longest track record, and is the most decentralized.
1:52.1	In previous columns, I've stressed the conversations you, as an advisor, will need to have with
1:56.9	clients, and how different they are from any conversations you've previously had to have
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