Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW.

The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk. Welcome back to the Breakdown. It is Saturday, January 18th or Sunday, January 19th,

depending on where you are and when you're listening. But either way, it is the weekly breakdown.

So last week I tried a new thing where I spin up all of the episodes from the previous week together.

It was a request from listeners who maybe don't have time during the week to listen to each

individual episode but are going on a long run or doing errands or something on the weekend.

People seem to like it, so I'm going to try it again.

And the way that I want to kick it off is just a quick TLDR on the week, right?

So if you only have three minutes, you can listen to this

and at least sound intelligent when you're faking it

over conversation this weekend.

So what was the story of this week,

this week which started on January 13th?

I think the first and most obvious story of the week was the big capstone price boom for the

entire markets, really, across the board that happened Monday, Tuesday and into Wednesday.

We've kind of stayed flat since then, but we raced up up the charts from a price perspective in the beginning part of the

week. And a lot of our conversation was about where that was coming from, right? Was this just

a technical pump? Was this just whales manipulating the market? Was this something more significant?

And obviously this had bigger implications in terms of that question.

And obviously this had some bigger implications in terms of that question because of the assets that were surging, right?

It wasn't just Bitcoin.

It was also Bitcoin SV, right?

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