Episode 478: Laura Shin

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Laura Shin is a journalist covering cryptocurrency and hosts the podcast Unchained. Her new book is The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze. “I was extremely well-acquainted with what the failings were with our traditional financial system. I was seeing through my other reporting how everything works now, and really understanding, whoa, this is not a good system. And then getting this education on what bitcoin is, I understood right away: wow, this is going to change the world.” Show notes: @laurashin laurashin.com 03:00 The Fintech 50 (Forbes) 16:00 The Breakdown Podcast (Nathaniel Whittemore • Coindesk) 29:00 "Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether" (Forbes • Feb 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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