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Welcome everybody to The Breakdown.

I'm your host, David Canales.

This episode is going to be a little bit different.

We have now rounded out Season Zero, what we're calling Season Zero, of the new format of the breakdown.

And we're taking a few weeks break in between seasons while we

prepare content to roll out for season one and i hope that you're enjoying the content so far but i

wanted to take this opportunity to really introduce myself to you because i imagine if you have been

a listener of the breakdown uh a while now, you would

have grown accustomed to hearing NLW and understanding how he thinks about crypto and macro

and Bitcoin in the world. So I really wanted to give an opportunity to understand who I am and

why I am even hosting the breakdown in the first place at all,

all of a sudden. So this is your going to be an audio-only episode, but we are going to continue

with the video episodes throughout the break as well before we roll out the next season. We should

be at the start of April, but TBD on that.

So who am I? Who is David Canales? So, I mean, I think maybe similarly to many of you,

I think I bought my first Bitcoin in mid-2017, just before the big ERC-20,

Ethereum-ICO bull run towards the end of that year in the start of 2018.

But, I mean, I stumbled across Bitcoin through the Bitcoin subreddit, basically.

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