The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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NLW and Scott Melker count down the most important crypto stories of the week, from more bipartisan pro-crypto legislation to a new discussion of stablecoins to the geopolitical implications of crypto's biggest ever funding deal. Sponsored by: Ledger Ledger, the world leader in digital asset security, proudly sponsors The Breakdown podcast. Celebrating 10 years of protecting over 20% of the world’s crypto, Ledger ensures the security of your assets. For the best self-custody solution in the space, buy a LEDGER™ device and secure your crypto today. Buy now on Ledger.com. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe to 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.
0:18.4	What's going on, guys? It is Friday, March 14th, and that means it's time for the Friday 5. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. We are back with another Friday 5 with Scott Melker, and this one has a lot of, I think, interesting
0:41.0	subtext.
0:42.2	Basically, I have been thinking lately a lot about why it is that there's such a disparity
0:46.5	between how good these external catalysts for crypto are and how bad it feels on the
0:51.1	inside.
0:52.1	Through a number of different stories across the week's news,
0:55.9	Scott and I get into exactly why I think that might be. Rather than repeating myself here,
1:00.4	I'm just going to put us over into the main episode so you can hear what we had to say about that.
1:04.5	Appreciate you guys listening, as always, and let's dive into the Friday 5.
1:09.2	The crypto industry can't seem to stop winning.
1:13.6	You know, I tried to quote a little Trump there at the beginning.
1:16.1	Well, so there's the amazing pun of the Stable Act and then the Genius Act, which one
1:22.1	brought together become the Stable Genius Act.
1:24.5	And we know that that has to be on purpose because we have a stable
1:28.0	has to be. Has to be. So what we're talking about here, for those who don't know,
1:34.2	the stable coin bill clears Senate Banking Committee and there's no thing there. There it is.
1:38.8	The stable coin bill clears Senate Banking Committee. This is obviously that genius act that you mentioned,
1:45.5	brought to us by Haggerty. Interestingly, obviously, this committee was yesterday. We all know
1:52.0	who sits on this committee and is no longer the chair. It's Elizabeth Warren. And man,
1:56.3	she was visibly shaken if you watch this, especially because a number of Democrats flipped
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