This is Carpe Consensus.

Join hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto.

Hello and welcome to the show. My name is Ben Shiller. I'm the features editor here at CoinDest. This is Carpe Consensus and a podcast from the CoinDest podcast network. And I'm

joined today by the ineffable, the inestimable, the incredible Danny Nelson, good day to you, sir.

I only know what one of those words means, but I'll accept it. Thank you, Ben. I'm happy to be here.

Okay, well, I think they're all pretty good words, and they're all most appropriate.

How are you? Are you surviving December and everything that's going on?

You know, I'm excited as ever for the end of the year and the break that I think we'll get.

But it seems like we're back in bull market territory as we record this.

Bitcoin is, I think it's near $44,000.

Surging away, surging.

It's surging.

You know why I think people are buying? I think they're buying Ben because they just were so inspired by our coverage of the movers and shakers of this

industry that they thought, wow, I really need to have a piece of this. That definitely is true.

And I think you're referring to our most influential package,

which debited on Monday, December the 4th. It's 50 profiles of, as you say, movers and shakers

in our industry. And it's something we do every year around this time. And it's identifying

the people who, as we say, defined the year in crypto, who spoke to the big themes of the year.

And we're going to get into some of the profiles that we published on Monday, including a couple that Danny did and a couple of other writers did who will bring on the show.

And it's an exciting package and a good way to review what has been a momentous year for crypto full of ups and downs as normal, but

it's been a different type of year. I think some of the other ones we've covered, Danny,

in the last few years, very kind of a tale of two halves of retrenchment after the scandals of last

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