The Breakdown With NLW Episode

Biden’s Top Antitrust Adviser Is a Bitcoin Millionaire

Why being anti-Big Tech monopoly and pro-bitcoin are clearly compatible ideologies.

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Why being anti-Big Tech monopoly and pro-bitcoin are clearly compatible ideologies.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

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On today’s episode, NLW looks at a grab bag of recent news:

  • El Salvador’s bitcoin announcement makes waves as politicians from six more Central and South American countries change their profiles to laser eyes
  • Donald Trump resurfaces to rip bitcoin again
  • No, the FBI didn’t break bitcoin
  • Why Tim Wu’s bitcoin holdings are intellectually consistent with his antitrust stance

See also: Biden’s National Security Adviser Sees Crypto Role in Cyberattacks as Priority for G-7, NATO

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HOST

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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