A review of what happened at the Senate Banking Committee’s recent hearing. This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the recent U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing on stablecoins. More contentious than the previous week’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on crypto, NLW argues the hearing helps us understand the current arguments against stablecoins from some of their most important political opponents. -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 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 “Dark Crazed Cap” by Isaac Joel. Image credit: Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images News, 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.