On the day of Coinbase’s historic direct listing on NASDAQ, NLW answers your most important questions about the company and its place in the industry.  How did Coinbase become successful? What is the crypto public's perception of Coinbase?...

There is perhaps no question more debated in macroeconomics than what sort of inflation we’re likely to see in the coming years. Many are convinced that the combination of a growing money supply, expansionary monetary policy, pent-up demand,...

Coinbase is set to go public via direct listing on Wednesday. In today’s episode, NLW breaks down why this is the current bull market’s first big test, looking at: Mainstream narratives  Institutional liquidity  Retail...

This week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday” features NLW reading Bradley Rettler’s “.” It is an argument that, far from being just a speculative tool for the already wealthy, bitcoin represents a disruptive force that can combat wealth...

On this week’s “Weekly Recap,” NLW digs into the theory of the bitcoin supercycle. Are we in the same sort of four-year, halving-driven, boom-bust cycle that has characterized bitcoin so far, or are the new institutional participants breaking us...

Today on the Brief: Crypto Climate Accord Robinhood crypto trading  The decentralization of venture capital Our main discussion: This week was absolutely chock-full of institutions getting into the bitcoin space, yet barely anyone noticed. From...

Peter Thiel is nothing if not good at igniting controversy. For the last 24 hours or so, Bitcoin Twitter (and really, FinTwit and TechTwit and Politics Twitter as well) have been hotly debating his assertion in recent remarks that bitcoin had become a...

Today on the Brief: Coinbase’s monster Q1 numbers 150 million evaporate from the global middle class Jamie Dimon’s shareholder letter comments on crypto Our main discussion: Bloomberg’s latest crypto outlook is out. In this episode, NLW looks...

On today’s episode, NLW provides a whistle stop tour of some of the most interesting and illuminating numbers from crypto and traditional markets, including: The pop in Jurassic Park altcoins Archegos fallout US vaccine distribution Outflows from...

Today on the Brief: The 88th anniversary of Executive Order 6102 Former SEC Jay Clayton on bitcoin regulations  GBTC intends to become an ETF Our main discussion:  NLW breaks down the potential implications of the Coinbase IPO. He looks at...

On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads CoinDesk journalist Brady Dale’s “.” NLW argues this topic is even more important in the context of bitcoin institutionalization. -- Earn up to 12% APY on Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD, EUR, GBP,...

On this edition of “The Breakdown” Weekly Recap, NLW looks at a set of mainstream moments including: “SNL” doing a song about NFTs Visa accepting USDC on Ethereum as a native settlement currency PayPal opening crypto checkout to 29 million...

This episode is a replay of NLW’s conversation with Cathie Wood from October 2020. In it, they discuss:   Why she had conviction in Tesla before the market caught up  Why her fund offered the first bitcoin investment opportunities to Wall...

The financial world has been rocked by the Archegos scandal. A family office managing at least $10 billion and betting with $50 billion-$80 billion on leverage that was completely undone, literally overnight.  In this episode, NLW breaks down: ...

As the old saying goes: “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”  Ten months ago, Goldman Sachs declared that “cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not an asset class.” Today, CNBC broke the news...

Today on the Brief: BTC micro futures coming to CME Michael Jordan is now an NFT investor Bitcoin doesn’t care about Treasury yields Our main discussion: PayPal has begun rolling out its crypto checkout tools to millions of merchants. NLW breaks...

Today’s episode of “The Breakdown” is an extended brief with five different topics: NFTs make it to “SNL” “Green” bitcoin mining Square’s CFO thinks all companies should hold bitcoin in their treasuries Crypto M&A doubles in 2020...

On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Hoffman’s essay “” from Bankless. The essay argues that culture, more than economics, will be the most important long-term beneficiary of the rise of crypto.  -- Earn up to 12% APY...

On this week’s Weekly Recap, NLW: Highlights the four most important happenings around regulation and central bank digital currencies in the U.S. Updates the macro inflation narrative for a “new normal” era Digs into what we’ve learned...

Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW digs into bitcoin and crypto markets. He argues that despite two weeks of sideways-down price action, there are a set of reasons to be optimistic: Historically bad March months versus historically good Aprils...

Today on the Brief: Fidelity files a bitcoin ETF application Stimmies to China The situation in the Suez Our main discussion: In response to a question from Illinois Democrat Bill Foster during a House hearing earlier this week, Federal Reserve...

Today on the Brief: Robinhood IPO incoming Competing bitcoin price predictions  Yellen and Powell’s latest testimony on economic growth Our main discussion: Elon Musk announced this morning Tesla’s program for buying its cars with...

Three major moments over the last couple days help provide insight into the future of the U.S. government’s relationship with bitcoin, stablecoins and digital currencies.  The first was Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments on...

Today on the Brief: Nigeria central bank reversing stance on crypto ban?  “The least responsible fiscal policy of the last 40 years” Scaramucci’s firm files fifth bitcoin ETF application Our main discussion: the crash of the Turkish lira....

On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads a BitcoinTalk forum from exactly eight years ago - Hal Finney’s “.” The piece is about the origins of Bitcoin, and more broadly, life’s treasures. -- Earn up to 12% APY on Bitcoin,...