Nathaniel Whittemore

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.

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How 2020 Unlocked a New Generation of Investors, feat. Jill Carlson
No one would have expected an economic crisis to bring a new generation of investors to the table, but that's exactly what it did.
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Hacking Humanity With Bitcoin, feat. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
Two of bitcoin's most vocal advocates discuss why this year broke open the floodgates on an aging economic system.
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Raoul Pal on the Coming Transformation of Monetary and Fiscal Policy
The founder of Real Vision joins NLW for a discussion of CBDCs, bitcoin and why he remains "irresponsibly long."
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Why Bitcoin and Rehypothecation Don’t Mix
A reading of Jeffrey Snider’s latest essay and Caitlin Long’s companion tweet thread.
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Preston Pysh on Why Currencies Fail
An encore presentation of NLW’s conversation with Preston Pysh recorded on March 12 – the infamous Black Thursday.
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Balaji Srinivasan on Communist Capital vs. Woke Capital vs. Crypto Capital
One of the internet’s most fluid thinkers joins to give a brief history of the future.
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The CIO of $230B AUM Guggenheim Just Called for $400,000 BTC
A recap of 5+ insanely bullish stories that got buried in the bitcoin price action.
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Why $20,000 Bitcoin Matters
Validation. Psychology. FOMO. NLW looks at why today’s price achievement marks a turning point in bitcoin’s history.
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Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein
As traditional financial institutions line up to get into bitcoin, a debate on whether it can stay permissionless and censorship resistant.
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JPMorgan Discusses $600B in Potential New Bitcoin Demand
MassMutual’s $100M BTC investment has the potential to open a massive new investment category, according to analysts.
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