How Writing 'The Cryptopians' Shaped My Views on Ethereum - Ep.324
Unchained
Laura Shin
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:42.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no-hi resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, a journalist with over two decades of experience. |
| 0:55.0 | I started coming crypto six years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency fall time. |
| 1:03.0 | This is the February 25th, 2022 episode of Unchained. |
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| 2:04.0 | Today's guest is me, author of the cryptopians. Idealism, greed, lies and the making of the first big cryptocurrency craze. |
| 2:13.0 | Here to interview me about my book, which came out on Tuesday, is Stephen Ehrlich, editor of Forbes crypto asset and blockchain advisor. Welcome, Stephen. |
| 2:23.0 | Thanks, Laura. It's a pleasure to be here and thank you for joining me as well. |
| 2:29.0 | So, yes, so let's dive in. I mean, your book, your book just came out. One question that just immediately comes to mind is, why did you decide to write a book and why did you pick this topic? |
| 2:40.0 | Having covered the initial coin offering craze in 2017 and seen just how quickly the whole thing took off and how it transformed the lives of so many different sources of mine, even my own life actually. |
| 2:55.0 | It really felt like something historic happened and it felt like something that was worth chronicling in a book. |
| 3:01.0 | So at that time, I felt, well, this would be a good moment to try to capture what happened. And so that is why I decided to cover this. And also, I wanted to write a book ever since I was a young child. |
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