A Bitcoiner Is Now on the Senate Banking Committee

Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis – the first U.S. senator to publicly hold bitcoin – has been appointed to the key financial regulatory committee.

Feb 6, 2021

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Wyoming’s Cynthia Lummis – the first U.S. senator to publicly hold bitcoin – has been appointed to the key financial regulatory committee.

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On this edition of The Breakdown’s weekly recap, NLW discusses:

The state of WallStreetBets
The Bitcoin for Corporations event
ETH all-time highs in advance of CME ETH futures
Tether
Cynthia Lummis on the Senate Banking Committee

This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | Have the Hedge Funds Infiltrated Reddit’s WallStreetBets?

Tuesday | Is This the End of the Reddit Retail Investor Dream?

Wednesday | Michael Saylor’s Mission to Get 1,400 Corporations Into Bitcoin

Thursday | What We Learned About PayPal’s Crypto Strategy This Week

Friday | Travis Kling: In the Fed Era, There’s No Such Thing as Market Fundamentals

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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.