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A reading of Brady Dale’s “Don’t Follow the Suits, Follow the Weirdos.”

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads CoinDesk journalist Brady Dale’s “Don’t Follow the Suits, Follow the Weirdos.” NLW argues this topic is even more important in the context of bitcoin institutionalization. 

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

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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

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This episode is a replay of NLW’s conversation with Cathie Wood from October 2020. In it, they discuss:

• Why she had conviction in Tesla before the market caught up 
• Why her fund offered the first bitcoin investment opportunities to Wall Street
• Why it doesn’t hire traditional Wall Street analysts 
• Why it gives away all research for free
• Why it shares the trades made in a completely open-source way
• ARK’s recent Bitcoin Investment Thesis white paper
• What the prospects are for innovation in 2021 

Find our guest online:

• Twitter: @CathieDWood
• Web: ark-invest.com

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A TL;DR on how Archegos went from betting $50B or more to having nothing overnight. 

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The financial world has been rocked by the Archegos scandal. A family office managing at least $10 billion and betting with $50 billion-$80 billion on leverage that was completely undone, literally overnight. 

In this episode, NLW breaks down:

• Bill Hwang’s origins in Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management
• Hwang’s conviction for insider trading
• How Hwang leveraged his fund’s performance to get off prime broker blacklists
• Why Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others decided to margin call Archegos last week
• What the whole affair says about markets today

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Less than a year after it proclaimed cryptocurrencies are “not an asset class,” Goldman is launching a set of bitcoin and crypto products.

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As the old saying goes: “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.” 

Ten months ago, Goldman Sachs declared that “cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not an asset class.” Today, CNBC broke the news Goldman is planning to release a full suite of bitcoin and crypto investment products. 

On this episode, NLW breaks down the larger macro context that got us from then to now and explains why, if you’re a wealthy client of Goldman, you might have some big questions to ask.

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The old canard that you can’t buy coffee with bitcoin is less true than ever as PayPal rolls out crypto checkout for 29 million merchants.

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Today on the Brief:

• BTC micro futures coming to CME
• Michael Jordan is now an NFT investor
• Bitcoin doesn’t care about Treasury yields

Our main discussion: PayPal has begun rolling out its crypto checkout tools to millions of merchants. NLW breaks down:

• Why payments for day-to-day items have been historically deprioritized for Bitcoin and Ethereum 
• Why the PayPal checkout tools are unlikely to shift the primary use case from store of value style functions to medium of exchange
• Why the liquidity and utility PayPal crypto checkout creates still adds significant value to these crypto assets

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Visa officially enables USDC as a native currency and means of settlement. 

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Today’s episode of “The Breakdown” is an extended brief with five different topics:

• NFTs make it to “SNL”
• “Green” bitcoin mining
• Square’s CFO thinks all companies should hold bitcoin in their treasuries
• Crypto M&A doubles in 2020
• Visa announces USDC as settlement currency 

Ultimately, NLW argues that while non-fungible tokens are showing up in pop culture, the Visa deal reinforces the notion that this crypto bull market is being driven by large-scale institutional engagement.

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A reading of David Hoffman’s recent essay “The Digital Cultural Revolution.”

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.

On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Hoffman’s essay “The Digital Cultural Revolution” from Bankless. The essay argues that culture, more than economics, will be the most important long-term beneficiary of the rise of crypto.

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Recent investments and a TV appearance this week start to show how the legendary investor’s crypto strategy is shaping up.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.

On this week’s Weekly Recap, NLW:

• Highlights the four most important happenings around regulation and central bank digital currencies in the U.S.
• Updates the macro inflation narrative for a “new normal” era
• Digs into what we’ve learned recently about George Soros’ bitcoin and crypto strategy

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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.

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Exodus empowers people to control their wealth through a safe and reliable non-custodial crypto wallet, placing the ownership of digital assets back into the user’s hands. Your keys, your crypto. Download Exodus today and learn more at exodus.com.

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Although the bitcoin price has been wavering since March 13, there are historical, technical and foundational reasons to be optimistic. 

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper, and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.

Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW digs into bitcoin and crypto markets. He argues that despite two weeks of sideways-down price action, there are a set of reasons to be optimistic:

• Historically bad March months versus historically good Aprils
• Retracements and pullbacks in 2017 
• Analysis around options expiry in 2021
• The continuation and expansion of the macro inflation narrative
• Institutions applying for bitcoin ETFs
• Coins leaving exchanges

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Launching in late-March, Casper is the future-proof blockchain protocol that finally address the blockchain trilemma. Learn more at Casper.Network.

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