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The 3 Most Thought-Provoking Questions in Bitcoin With Nik Bhatia

This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.

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On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Nik Bhatia, author of “Layered Money” and The Bitcoin Layer newsletter. They discuss:

Bitcoin’s relationship with equities and the TradFi marketsWhy the Fed is trapped by rates marketsWhether privacy is essential to Bitcoin’s successThe game theory around nation-state bitcoin adoptionHow financialization of BTC will impact the asset

Follow our guest on Twitter.

See also: Goldman: Bitcoin, Altcoins to Become More Correlated With Traditional Financial Market Variables

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Time” by OBOY. Image credit: Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.

Download this episode

On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Nik Bhatia, author of “Layered Money” and The Bitcoin Layer newsletter. They discuss:

Bitcoin’s relationship with equities and the TradFi marketsWhy the Fed is trapped by rates marketsWhether privacy is essential to Bitcoin’s successThe game theory around nation-state bitcoin adoptionHow financialization of BTC will impact the asset

Follow our guest on Twitter.

See also: Goldman: Bitcoin, Altcoins to Become More Correlated With Traditional Financial Market Variables

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Time” by OBOY. Image credit: Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

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