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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701
WSJ Says Binance Facing Trouble Over Sanctions ...
14 min
702
The Next Phase of Stablecoin Competition Begins...
13 min
703
"The SEC Is Floundering"
13 min
704
What Progressives Should Understand About Crypto
11 min
705
Tornado Cash Sanctions Upheld In Court
11 min
706
Why Bitcoin Just Flash Crashed
14 min
707
A Primer on China's Current Economic Turmoil
17 min
708
Coinbase Launches Crypto Policy Coalition as FD...
12 min
709
Why A Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Central Bank Economist ...
16 min
710
A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
14 min
711
The Bitcoin Genie Isn't Going Back in the Bottle
16 min
712
The Massive Significance of the PayPal Stablecoin
13 min
713
Why Post Malone Is Against CBDCs
13 min
714
Will Coinbase's Launch of BASE Ignite the Crypt...
14 min
715
Did the Fed Just Institutionalize Operation Cho...
14 min
716
PayPal's Stablecoin is the (Second) Biggest Cry...
14 min
717
Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
13 min
718
How Stablecoins Could Save the Dollar's Global ...
10 min
719
Worldcoin Iris Scanning Shut Down in Kenya
14 min
720
A Primer on LK-99
17 min
721
Binance: Too Big to Jail
12 min
722
Is the US Credit Rating Downgrade a Nothingburger?
15 min
723
Tether Holds More US Government Debt Than Austr...
13 min
724
Is DeFi Too Dangerous?
16 min
725
The Boring-ification of the Crypto Narrative
9 min