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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Investing
726
Tornado Cash Sanctions Upheld In Court
11 min
727
Why Bitcoin Just Flash Crashed
14 min
728
A Primer on China's Current Economic Turmoil
17 min
729
Coinbase Launches Crypto Policy Coalition as FD...
12 min
730
Why A Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Central Bank Economist ...
16 min
731
A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
14 min
732
The Bitcoin Genie Isn't Going Back in the Bottle
16 min
733
The Massive Significance of the PayPal Stablecoin
13 min
734
Why Post Malone Is Against CBDCs
13 min
735
Will Coinbase's Launch of BASE Ignite the Crypt...
14 min
736
Did the Fed Just Institutionalize Operation Cho...
14 min
737
PayPal's Stablecoin is the (Second) Biggest Cry...
14 min
738
Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
13 min
739
How Stablecoins Could Save the Dollar's Global ...
10 min
740
Worldcoin Iris Scanning Shut Down in Kenya
14 min
741
A Primer on LK-99
17 min
742
Binance: Too Big to Jail
12 min
743
Is the US Credit Rating Downgrade a Nothingburger?
15 min
744
Tether Holds More US Government Debt Than Austr...
13 min
745
Is DeFi Too Dangerous?
16 min
746
The Boring-ification of the Crypto Narrative
9 min
747
Operation Choke Point 2.0 Comes for Crypto Audi...
13 min
748
A Combative, Contentious Hearing Moves Stableco...
15 min
749
A Historic Day for Crypto Policy
14 min
750
Fed Raises Rates to 22 Year High and Says No Re...
13 min