CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Fight for DeFi in Washington, D.C., With Miller Whitehouse-Levine

A discussion of the state of regulatory discourse around decentralized finance.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Circle.

Editor's note: This interview was recorded on Oct. 24 and so it doesn’t reference the events of the last week. 

On today’s “Breakdown” interview, NLW is joined by Miller Whitehouse-Levine, policy director at the DeFi Education Fund. They discuss the state of regulatory discourse in Washington, D.C., along with key recent events including Treasury Department sanctions. 

Find our guest on Twitter: @millercwl

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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is “War” by Enoch Yang. Image credit: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.



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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Space Junk, The Feds Roll Up, and the Terrifying Reality of Precrime in the US

Chen calls in with an extraordinary tale of mysterious government agents detaining him at work. The Baron writes in to ask about ancient metal from the stars. Over on Instagram, an anonymous source gives their first-hand experience working in the world of precrime... and how the technology is much further along than the average person might assume. (That last one, in fact, was so frightening that we decided to end on some jokes.) All this and more in this week's listener mail. They don’t want you to read our book.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 11/10

Nicole makes landfall in Florida as a hurricane, then drops to tropical storm status. Control of Congress still up in the air. Thanksgiving dinner inflation. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Burn Wild - Episode 8-and-a-half: Extraordinary collateral consequences

An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, who on November 1st 2022 was sentenced.

CREDITS Presenter: Leah Sottile Producer: Georgia Catt Written by: Leah Sottile and Georgia Catt Music and Sound Design: Phil Channell Music including theme music by Echo Collective, composed performed and produced by Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant; recorded, mixed and produced by Fabien Leseure Voiceover actor: Chloe Beeney Artwork by Danny Crossley with Art Direction by Amy Fullalove Script recorded and mixed by Slater Swan at Anjuna Recording Studio Series Mixing and Studio Engineers: Sarah Hockley Series Editor: Philip Sellars Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson Commissioner: Dylan Haskins Burn Wild is a BBC Audio Documentaries Production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live

The Intelligence from The Economist - Beaten, a retreat: cautious hope in Kherson

Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the drawdown might go and what it means for the wider war. Britain is set for the largest wave of industrial action in decades; the strikes could throw the country into chaos. And the long life of Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first-ever voter.

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