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The Breakdown

A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is part of Blockworks. Subscribe to The Breakdown newsletter: https://the-breakdown.carrd.co/

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50 episodes

Sep 18, 2025•—

Google’s New Agent Payments Protocol and What It Means for Crypto

Sep 19, 2025•—

Fed Cuts Rates Amid Rising Labor Market Risks

Sep 20, 2025•—

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

Sep 23, 2025•—

Senate Democrats Push for Bipartisan Role in Crypto Market Structure Bill

Sep 24, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s September Shakeout: $1.7B in Liquidations Sets Stage for Q4

Sep 25, 2025•—

Tether’s Half-Trillion Dollar Valuation

Sep 26, 2025•—

Agentic Payments and the Next Internet Economy

Sep 27, 2025•—

Friday Five: Tether’s $500B Play, SEC Opens the Door, and Vanguard Bows to Crypto

Sep 30, 2025•—

Kraken’s $15B Secret Raise and the Race to IPO

Oct 1, 2025•—

SEC & CFTC Call a Truce on Crypto Regulation

Oct 2, 2025•—

Government Shutdown Hits as Politics Markets and AI Collide

Oct 3, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s Favorite Month Has Arrived

Oct 4, 2025•—

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

Oct 7, 2025•—

Bitcoin Breaks $125,000: The October Melt-Up Is On

Oct 8, 2025•—

The TradFi-Crypto Fusion Is Here

Oct 9, 2025•—

ICE Invests $2 Billion in Polymarket

Oct 10, 2025•—

Wall Street Discovers the “Debasement Trade”

Oct 10, 2025•—

Could This Actually Be An Amazing Setup for Bitcoin?

Oct 10, 2025•—

Could This Actually Be An Amazing Setup for Bitcoin?

Oct 14, 2025•—

The Short, Brutal Bear Market of October ‘25

Oct 16, 2025•—

The Tokenization Era Begins (says Fink)

Oct 18, 2025•—

The 5 Most Important Stories in Crypto Last Week

Oct 21, 2025•—

Is It All Over for Crypto?

Oct 22, 2025•—

Why the Internet Crash Made Bitcoin Look Stronger

Oct 23, 2025•—

Is the Gold to Bitcoin Rotation Underway?

Oct 24, 2025•—

Democrats Blow Up at Crypto Executives Over Market Structure Bill

Oct 25, 2025•—

The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto

Oct 28, 2025•—

Bitcoin Surges on Hopes of a China Deal

Oct 29, 2025•—

Will Bitcoin Ever Fall Below $100K Again?

Oct 30, 2025•—

Polymarket’s $9B Comeback: Prediction Markets Return to the U.S.

Oct 31, 2025•—

Fed Cuts as Expected, But Powell Keeps Markets Guessing

Nov 1, 2025•—

Wall Street’s Crypto Push, Western Union’s Stablecoin, and the Fed’s Halloween Confusion

Nov 11, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s $100K Test and the Return of Stimmy Checks

Nov 13, 2025•—

Did the US Steal $13 Billion in Bitcoin? China Says Yes

Nov 14, 2025•—

What the End of the Shutdown Really Means for Crypto

Nov 16, 2025•—

The Week Crypto Moved Forward While Prices Fell Behind

Nov 18, 2025•—

The Bitcoin Bears Are Back In Town

Nov 19, 2025•—

Why Coinbase’s First ICO Fell Flat

Nov 20, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s Bottom Watch Begins

Nov 22, 2025•—

[CORRECT] Fed Minutes Slam the Door on Rate Cuts—Bitcoin Hits New Lows

Nov 23, 2025•—

The Five Most Important Stories This Week

Nov 25, 2025•—

Scott Besson Walks Into a Bitcoin Bar

Nov 26, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s Fragile Recovery

Dec 2, 2025•—

Bitcoin’s Worst November in Years

Dec 3, 2025•—

The Walls Around Crypto Are Finally Cracking

Dec 4, 2025•—

Tokenization’s Starting Gun

Dec 5, 2025•—

Fink, Armstrong, and the DealBook Turning Point

Dec 6, 2025•—

The 5 Most Important Stories in Crypto Last Week

Dec 9, 2025•—

Crypto Regulation Hits a DeFi Wall

Dec 10, 2025•—

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