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