Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of

startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

I'm Natasha Masqueriness and this is our Wednesday show where we niche down into a single topic, think about a question, and unpack the rest.

The goal with today's episode is give everyone a helpful framing when they're thinking about crypto.

So our big question this week is, what do the crypto curious need to know in order to be more savvy?

Interpret that how you will but we will be getting into a lot of questions and to help me out with that I am joined by the wonderful Alex will

Alex how are you I'm fantastic because once again we are taking on a topic that

we are going to be able to sew up neatly to complete our conversation about

and never have to come back to again it's perfect. Someone recently told me like the best essays just like leave people with more questions

and it just gave me the permission I didn't need to be vague and loose-ended.

They did say essays, Natasha, not perhaps possible. vague and loose ended.

They did say essays, Natasha, not perhaps podcast.

There could be a differentiation, but the good news is we're not alone.

Yes, so to help us explore, we are joined by Lucas Matney and Anita Ramaswami, the hosts of Tech Crunch's newest

podcast focusing on crypto news and the best name I think we have in the podcast world

so far, chain reaction.

Lucas and Anita, thank you so much for joining equity.

Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks we're super excited. You guys have both been on the

show at separate times so this is kind of like a reunion of sorts. It's gonna be great. Yes, it's been a little bit but I'm

excited to chat chat with your audience.

So before we...

Sounds so corporate.

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