Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

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'Good Reason to Worry': What the BitMEX Indictment Means for DeFi and Bitcoin, Feat. Stephen Palley and Preston Byrne

Crypto legal experts join NLW to discuss the U.S. government’s case against BitMEX and its implications for the broader ecosystem.

Arthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX

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10 Popular Investing Beliefs We Should Be Questioning

NLW dives into a viral twitter thread asking people which financial conventional wisdom they disagree with.

Breakdown 10.1

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DeFi Summer; Bitcoin Fall

The attention may have been with DeFi when it was warm, but as the cold winds of COVID-19 return fears and election volatility blow, bitcoin is resuming narrative dominance.

Breakdown 9.30

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So Now They’re Hacking DeFi Protocols Before They’ve Even Launched?

When the DeFi degens caught wind of a new pre-release Andre Cronje project they piled in, only to get $16 million hacked away in a flash.

Breakdown 9.29

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Coinbase’s New Policy: Anti-Woke or Just a Joke?

CEO Brian Armstrong’s letter has not just the crypto world but the larger world of tech and business talking about the role of corporations in society.

Breakdown 9.29

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Why Bitcoin's Longest Run Above $10,000 Matters

Bitcoin has been above $10,000 for even longer than the record 2017-18 run, giving confidence to long-term HODLers in the process.

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Understanding the Coming Currency Cold War

Will the future of currency be led by the U.S., China, Bitcoin or some combination we can barely imagine today?

Breakdown 9.27

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Why the Stock Market Is Poised for Its Worst September Since 2011

Last week saw the third-biggest outflow from stock funds in history, and the dollar is the strongest it’s been since April. Here’s what’s going on.

Breakdown 9.26

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Sven Henrich on the Ever-Weakening Economic Cycle

The founder and lead market strategist at NorthmanTrader explains how the Fed has boxed itself in and why our fundamental economic capacity fails to grow.

Breakdown 9.25

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Did Corporate Insiders Perfectly Predict the Market Top?

In August, the volume of personally owned stock sold by corporate executives reached its highest level since 2015, followed by a 10% decline in the S&P 500 in September.

Breakdown 9.24