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

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is sponsored by</span></em> <a href= "https://nydig.com/nlw/?utm_source=coindesk&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=nlw"> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">NYDIG</span></em></a><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads four Twitter threads:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Alex Gladstein on whether the crypto experiment has failed</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1442518707926831105"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1442518707926831105</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny on big tech complicity</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1441065558267633666"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1441065558267633666</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Adam Cochran on the debt ceiling chicken game</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1443392843456864265"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1443392843456864265</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jason Yanowitz on why CryptoPunks will be worth $10m </span></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1442896400119832577"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1442896400119832577</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span></em></p> <p><a href= "https://nydig.com/nlw/?utm_source=coindesk&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=nlw"> <strong><em>NYDIG</em></strong></a><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, the institutional-grade platform for bitcoin, is making it possible for thousands of banks who have