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Welcome back to The Breakdown. It is Saturday, February 29th, and today, as

every Saturday, we are going to do a quick review the week before posting the entire

uninterrupted extended set of conversations and shows from this week. So all five episodes in a

single episode for your leap year.

And really, there's no doubt what the focus of this week was. This is the week where coronavirus

fears finally came home to roost in the markets and the turmoil in the larger economy hit

the crypto markets as well.

At the beginning of the week, we kicked off with an interview with Caitlin Long,

which was nominally about her new bank, Vante, but was also about why building this separate financial apparatus

matters so much and what a Black Swan event like coronavirus might mean. On Tuesday, we got deeper,

right? This was before the markets had their worst crash. On Tuesday, we looked at why crypto

was so interested in coronavirus, right? Why this was such a big conversation in this community.

On Wednesday, we looked at comments from Chimath Palahapatia about the idea of

how you need to put 1% of your net worth into Bitcoin, something he calls Schmuck Insurance.

We dug into the idea, the safe haven narrative. On Thursday, we got into a completely separate

issue, the Prague-P- the Prague POW debate that has been

defining and running around the Ethereum community.

I really just tried, admittedly, from an outsider perspective, to summarize the conversation

so far and the stakes of the debate.

So hopefully that's a useful primer.

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