Rebecca Rettig is the Chief Policy Officer at Polygon Labs and recently spearheaded The Value Prop -- a new project creating a database of digital asset use cases.  APOLOGIES FOR POOR NLW AUDIO - WE HAD A RIVERSIDE MISHAP!  Read the...

Dan Tapiero has deployed more than a billion dollars into growth stage digital asset companies in the last few years. He's also convinced that the bear market is over. In this conversation, he and NLW discuss the narrative resilience of crypto with...

Bitcoin is up above $30,000 and the return of the institutional narrative is driving it. NLW explores the good and bad.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube:...

On this episode of crypto shennanigans, Do Kwon sentenced to four months for fake passport; ZachXBT raises $1M to fight lawsuit; Sam still going on trial in October (despite viral tweets saying otherwise).  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to...

On today's episode, NLW looks at the (non) reaction of the crypto community to news that Tether held Chinese bank debt in 2021. The show also covers reactions to the Binance-SEC hearing last week.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the...

On Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads by Dr. Paul J. Dylan-Ennis Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the newsletter:...

This is truly one of the weirdest stories in crypto this year. Today NLW dives deep on Prometheum, a company that only showed up on most people's radar this week when their CEO inexplicably testified before Congress. Was it all a big SEC Grift?...

World's largest asset manager BlackRock has filed for a Bitcoin spot ETF. They've been approved for 575 out of their last 576 ETF applications. Given that there are no indications that the SEC has changed its tune on spot ETFs, the industry is left...

For the first time since this hiking cycle began, the Fed has chosen not to raise interest rates. NLW explores how they're trying to control the narrative around it, and what markets think is actually going on behind the scenes.  Enjoying this...

Yesterday three consequential legal events happened. Former SEC officer Bill Hinman's emails were released; the SEC was forced to respond to Coinbase; and Binance had their hearing on the SEC's emergency asset freeze request. NLW covers all of the...

Today in Federal Courts: the Hinman docs get unsealed in Ripple vs. SEC; SEC has to respond to Coinbase; and Binance US in court around SEC request to freeze assets. Plus the new #FireGary bill introduced by Congressional Republicans.  Enjoying...

Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, the crypto markets started puking, with a handful of altcoins crashing by more than 20% in a single 15 minute candle. On today's episode, NLW explores what happened and why.  Enjoying this content? ...

On this Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads: - David Z Morris - Michael J Casey Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the...

Operation Chokepoint 2.0 hasn't stopped savvy tradfi investors from smelling an opportunity. This week, revealing and emblematic comments from the leader of Soros' funds show how tradifitional financiers are seeing opportunity in the carnage. ...

BitGo has agreed to buy Prime Trust as the crypto custodian becomes the latest casualty of the bear market (and the government's assault on the industry). Binance is also pulling fiat rails from the US in advance of their hearing next Tuesday....

Binance has alleged that Gary Gensler previously offered to be an advisor to the company. They say that this means that he should recuse himself from any proceedings having to do with Binance. Meanwhile the SEC says, basically, that CZ used Binance US...

Are we at the SEC Crypto endgame? This week the regulator has sued Binance and Coinbase and made it clear they want crypto gone from America. Unfortunately for them, the industry isn't backing down.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the...

Yesterday the SEC sued Binance and CZ. Today, the SEC sued Coinbase. As Blockchain Association's Jake Chervinsky put it, it's pretty clear that SEC Chair Gensler is going for a strategy of "banning by enforcement."  Enjoying this content? ...

On Friday, the chairs of the House Financial Services Committee and the Agriculture Committee shared draft legislation that is meant to comprehensively deal with the thorniest issues of crypto regulation, including securities-commodities designation....

On this week's Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads two pieces by Byron Gilliam: Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the...

Today on the Weekly Recap, the latest out of the FTX bankruptcy and Sam Bankman-Fried's request to drop charges, plus Binance out of Australia and the CFTC getting more involved in crypto markets.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the...

On today's episode, NLW digs into the macro landscape. Specifically he looks at how tightness in the labor market has justified continued Fed tightening, but why the numbers aren't telling as clear a story as they once were.  Enjoying this...

Today on The Breakdown, NLW looks at the latest assinine argument about crypto from Senator Elizabeth Warren, as well as digging into the finalized debt deal, MiCA and more. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast:...

China's crypto policies appear to be shifting. From bans on trading and mining in 2021 to this year encouraging state run banks to offer crypto companies in Hong Kong banking accounts, a change is in the air. On this episode, NLW looks at a recent Web...

Today on The Breakdown, NLW wraps up the macro story that has dominated discourse for the last month.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube:...