Matt Leising & The Great Crypto Caper – The 55 Million Dollar Crypto Heist And How It Almost Brought Down Ethereum
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Matt Leising, author of Out of The Ether, discusses the $55 Million Dollar Ethereum heist and how it almost brought down Ethereum. Also, we discuss the crypto/blockchain space and how it will change everything. We get an insider look from a guy who knows some of the top visionaries in the space. Join us this week for a great episode about Ethereum and the future of blockchain.
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Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
- Douglas Heagren | Pro College Planners
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, the Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to this week's show. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host today. |
| 0:17.0 | So today we have a special guest, Matt Lysing. |
| 0:19.0 | How you doing today, Matt? |
| 0:20.0 | I'm great, Kurt. Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:22.2 | This is an interview I've been looking forward to for a while. I know it's maybe out of favor |
| 0:27.3 | in terms of what everybody wants to hear about, but it's essential to kind of the future trends |
| 0:32.1 | that we're going down. And of course, that's what we look at is what's in the future. So Matt, maybe you can tell us a bit about your background and what you do and how you got here. I've been a reporter my entire career. |
| 0:41.1 | I spent about 17 years at Bloomberg News where I was covering Wall Street and how markets work or |
| 0:47.6 | don't work. It was a beat called market structure. So I kind of got to know the ins and outs of |
| 0:52.4 | the futures market, the bond market, |
| 0:55.3 | treasuries, stuff like that. |
| 0:56.9 | So very important markets to the banks and their customers and investors. |
| 1:01.7 | Then in 2015, I kind of finally wrapped my head around blockchain and Bitcoin and what it meant. |
| 1:06.9 | I had always dismissed Bitcoin. |
| 1:08.7 | Didn't think it was a real thing. |
| 1:10.8 | But then when I understood that like the blockchain that't think it was a real thing. |
| 1:14.7 | But then when I understood that like the blockchain that made it all possible was this global network of computers that was outside the control of any government or corporation, |
| 1:20.0 | you know, that really just kind of sparked my curiosity. |
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