BREAKDOWN: What’s the Real Point of ‘Crypto’ Anyway?

“Long Reads Sunday” tackles the hard questions through Twitter threads. This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads four Twitter threads: Alex Gladstein on whether the crypto experiment has failedhttps://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1442518707926831105 Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny on big tech complicityhttps://twitter.com/navalny/status/1441065558267633666 Adam Cochran on the debt ceiling chicken gamehttps://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1443392843456864265 Jason Yanowitz on why CryptoPunks will be worth $10mhttps://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1442896400119832577 - NYDIG, the institutional-grade platform for bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have trusted relationships with hundreds of millions of customers, to offer Bitcoin. Learn more at NYDIG.com/NLW. - “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell 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 “Only in Time” by Abloom. Image credit: Malte Mueller/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.