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A Bitcoiner Is Now on the Senate Banking Committee

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 6, 2021

A Bitcoiner Is Now on the Senate Banking Committee
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Travis Kling: In the Fed Era, There’s No Such Thing as Market Fundamentals

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 5, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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What We Learned About PayPal's Crypto Strategy This Week

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 4, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Michael Saylor’s Mission to Get 1,400 Corporations Into Bitcoin

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 3, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Is This the End of the Reddit Retail Investor Dream?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 2, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
Podcasts

Have the Hedge Funds Infiltrated Reddit’s WallStreetBets?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 1, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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What Ray Dalio Really Thinks of Bitcoin

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 31, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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GameStop, Robinhood and the Failure of Un-Free Markets

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 30, 2021

GameStop, Robinhood and the Failure of Un-Free Markets
Podcasts

In Retrospect, It Was Inevitable: Elon Musk Pumps Bitcoin to Space

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 29, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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WallStreetBets Is Occupy Wall Street With Teeth

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 28, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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3:00 PM
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Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.
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SEC's big swing to clear tokenization path isn't likely to get resilience of full rule
Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization "innovation" efforts an exemption from securities law isn't as strong as a full-fledged rule.
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Wall Street and crypto are crashing into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6 billion
Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.
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