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Preston Pysh on Why Currencies Fail

An encore presentation of NLW’s conversation with Preston Pysh recorded on March 12 – the infamous Black Thursday.

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An encore presentation of NLW’s conversation with Preston Pysh recorded on March 12 – the infamous Black Thursday.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.

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On March 12, as the U.S. government struggled to wrap its head around the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and markets floundered, bitcoin had one of its worst days in history, crashing by thousands of dollars and even hitting below $4,000 on some exchanges.

That evening, NLW and podcaster Preston Pysh recorded a conversation about bitcoin, central banks and what happens when currencies fail. Nine months later, the conversation is as salient as ever.

Find our guest online: @PrestonPysh

See also: Preston Pysh on Why We’ve Entered a Fundamentally New Era of Bitcoin Accumulation

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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.

Nathaniel Whittemore