BREAKDOWN: Laura Shin on Greed, Hacks and Crypto Idealism
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The podcaster and author shares the story of Ethereum’s early days.
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Laura Shin is the host of “Unchained,” one of the best known and longest running crypto podcasts. She is also the author of the new book “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.” In today’s episode, she and NLW discuss the early days of Ethereum, including her theory on who was behind The DAO hack that ended up causing Ethereum to fork.
Find our guest on Twitter: @laurashin
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“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 “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: FlashMovie/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:00.0 | Because I do reveal so much drama and backstabbing and kind of a lot of stuff, I think, that people |
| 0:07.8 | didn't know that maybe doesn't necessarily reflect well on either Ethereum or crypto. I've had people |
| 0:14.5 | say things like, you know, does this kind of like shake your faith in the technology or anything? |
| 0:20.6 | And interestingly, |
| 0:21.4 | actually it doesn't. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, |
| 0:30.0 | Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by |
| 0:34.9 | nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:41.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, April 8th, and today I am joined by the one and only Laura Shin. |
| 0:49.1 | Before we get into that interview, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, |
| 0:54.7 | give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, come join us on the |
| 0:59.0 | Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.orgie slash breakdown pod. |
| 1:04.8 | So Laura Shin needs no introduction. She is the host of the Unchained podcast and really one of the voices of this space. |
| 1:12.8 | There are so many people whose first experience starting to learn about crypto was listening to |
| 1:18.8 | her interview people from the industry on her show. Laura is also the author of the new book |
| 1:24.0 | The Cryptopians, Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency |
| 1:29.8 | craze. As you'll hear on the show, this started out as a book about the ICO boom, but then |
| 1:35.1 | turned into really the most complete history we've had yet on the founding of Ethereum. |
| 1:40.4 | In this episode, we get into a bunch of details from the book, her perception of those early |
| 1:45.5 | days in Ethereum, what the significance of the Dow hack was, and how she came to make a |
| 1:49.8 | conclusion about who she thought was behind that famous 2016 hack. |
| 1:54.4 | It's a great show. |
| 1:55.4 | I know you're going to enjoy it, so without any further ado, let's dive in. |
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