The Breakdown

The Breakdown dives into the deepest topics in crypto, blockchain, and the macro forces shaping markets and power structures. Each episode breaks down complex ideas into clear, grounded analysis — separating signal from noise across crypto, finance, and geopolitics.

Hosted by David Canellis, The Breakdown features explainers, interviews, and conversations with the people building, regulating, and challenging the financial system.

A Blockworks podcast.

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What Progressives Should Understand About Crypto
11 min
677
Tornado Cash Sanctions Upheld In Court
11 min
678
Why Bitcoin Just Flash Crashed
14 min
679
A Primer on China's Current Economic Turmoil
17 min
680
Coinbase Launches Crypto Policy Coalition as FD...
12 min
681
Why A Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Central Bank Economist ...
16 min
682
A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
14 min
683
The Bitcoin Genie Isn't Going Back in the Bottle
16 min
684
The Massive Significance of the PayPal Stablecoin
13 min
685
Why Post Malone Is Against CBDCs
13 min
686
Will Coinbase's Launch of BASE Ignite the Crypt...
14 min
687
Did the Fed Just Institutionalize Operation Cho...
14 min
688
PayPal's Stablecoin is the (Second) Biggest Cry...
14 min
689
Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
13 min
690
How Stablecoins Could Save the Dollar's Global ...
10 min
691
Worldcoin Iris Scanning Shut Down in Kenya
14 min
692
A Primer on LK-99
17 min
693
Binance: Too Big to Jail
12 min
694
Is the US Credit Rating Downgrade a Nothingburger?
15 min
695
Tether Holds More US Government Debt Than Austr...
13 min
696
Is DeFi Too Dangerous?
16 min
697
The Boring-ification of the Crypto Narrative
9 min
698
Operation Choke Point 2.0 Comes for Crypto Audi...
13 min
699
A Combative, Contentious Hearing Moves Stableco...
15 min
700
A Historic Day for Crypto Policy
14 min