The Breakdown With NLW Episode

Liberty Mutual and State Street Are the Latest Institutions to Join the Bitcoin Party

Institutional participation in Bitcoin shows no signs of slowing down.

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Institutional participation in Bitcoin shows no signs of slowing down.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and this week’s special product launch, Exodus.

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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 Liberty Mutual and Starr Insurance investing in NYDIG to a massive real estate company moving treasury into bitcoin and accepting it for rent, the institutional infiltration of bitcoin shows no signs of stopping.

See also: Is State Street Going Crypto?

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HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.

Nathaniel Whittemore