The Breakdown With NLW Episode

For Bitcoin and Crypto, a Week of Mainstreaming Moments

From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.

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From NFTs on “Saturday Night Live” to Goldman Sachs reversing course on bitcoin, it was a week of widening audiences.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

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On this edition of “The Breakdown” Weekly Recap, NLW looks at a set of mainstream moments including:

  • “SNL” doing a song about NFTs
  • Visa accepting USDC on Ethereum as a native settlement currency
  • PayPal opening crypto checkout to 29 million merchants
  • Goldman Sachs opening bitcoin investment programs
  • Chipotle’s “bitcoin and burritos” promotion

See also: SNL Skit Uses Kate McKinnon’s ‘Janet Yellen’ and Slim Shady to Explain NFTs

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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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