'The Internet Was Illegal' and Other Early Stories With Zooko Wilcox
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show enlisted CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox for a conversation o...
12 Jan 202056min
BREAKDOWN: The Global Game of Coins Heats Up | January 10th, 2020
China’s digital currency project continues to move ahead aggressively, with a new paper from the People’s Bank of China suggesting that a core design is complete. Whatever stage of development the cur...
10 Jan 202017min
NARRATIVE WATCH: Will DAOs Break Out In 2020? | January 9th, 2020
The aftershock of the 2016 The DAO hack meant that DAOs weren’t nearly as hyped as ICOs and later some other aspects of the web3 movement. In 2019, however, DAOs came roaring back and start 2020 with ...
9 Jan 202021min
BREAKDOWN: Travis Kling on Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset | January 8th, 2019
The conversation about whether bitcoin is a safe haven asset continues in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, which saw the price of BTC both surge and retrace in parallel with crude and gold. To hel...
8 Jan 202017min
BREAKDOWN: Hamstringing an Industry With Compliance Costs | January 7th, 2020
In their annual transparency report, Kraken reported seeing a 50% increase in regulatory inquiries as compared to 2018, which CEO Jesse Powell later revealed cost the exchange more than $1m. Between t...
7 Jan 202018min
BREAKDOWN: Taking the TON out of Telegram | January 6th 2020
Last week, the US government took out a key Iranian military leader. As the world - and the markets - reacts to the news, some are asking what happens with bitcoin. With global instability on the rise...
6 Jan 202018min
YouTube, Tron and the Dream of Decentralization | January 3rd, 2019
The past few weeks have seen multiple instances of large, centralized tech giants censoring crypto related content and activity. Noticed in the context of the Coinbase Wallet, Apple is pushing back ag...
3 Jan 202013min
BREAKDOWN: Taylor Monahan on Crypto’s Divergent Possibilities in 2020
Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto. In this interview as part of The Breakdown’s end of year coverage, she argues that the level of discourse in crypto matured in 2019, with more focus ...
1 Jan 202018min
