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What’s the Real Point of ‘Crypto’ Anyway?
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This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads four Twitter threads:
- Alex Gladstein on whether the crypto experiment has failed
- Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny on big tech complicity
- Adam Cochran on the debt ceiling chicken game
- Jason Yanowitz on why CryptoPunks will be worth $10m
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: Malte Mueller/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.
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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