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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Saturday, May 9th, and this week, as every week, I am bringing you the full compilation

of the week's episodes all put together for a convenient single-run listen.

Before I do that, I like to give just a little bit of a sense of maybe what

happened this week. And I have to start with the bad news first. But there will be good news,

don't worry. The bad news is that it's becoming increasingly clear that rather than using this

time of shutdown to actually get our medical system to where it needed to be

and our ability to test to where it needed to be, we've just kicked this can endlessly down the

road debating stupid things like when to open up rather than how, and we're going to pay the

price. We are going to go through a long, painful process of fits and starts of fake reopening and

closings and shutdowns and expect this forever, basically now, or at least for the foreseeable

future, because we simply haven't done the actual hard work of figuring out how to solve this

crisis.

It's immensely frustrating.

It's incredibly disheartening, and it sucks. So that's the

bad news. The bad news is that we have just failed mightily in our obligation to our people to actually

be able to address a virus. Second, though, and this is the good news, for those who are in the Bitcoin and Crypto community,

the Bitcoin halving excitement has fully taken hold. The halving is anticipated on Monday evening.

It is the four-year or every four-year event during which the Bitcoin Block Reward subsidy gets

reduced by half, meaning even more intense

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