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And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. And the What's up everybody? My guest on this episode of Hidden Forces is Camilla Russo,

the host of the Defiant Podcast and a former Bloomberg news reporter

responsible for covering emerging markets,

European stocks, and digital assets.

She's also the author of The Infinite Machine, the first official account of the

rise of Ethereum, a story full of determination, ingenuity, and intrigue.

In the first half of our conversation, I asked Camilla about her experience working as a journalist in Argentina, how she got interested in covering

cryptocurrencies, as well as her process for writing such an ambitious book.

The rest of the episode deals mostly with the book itself, including a conversation

about the ICO craze of 2017 and the impact that it's had on Ethereum, its developer community, and investor appetite for funding

new ventures and initiatives in the space.

This part of the conversation continues into the overtime, where we also debate whether or not the

ICO model itself is the ideal mechanism by which to fund early stage open source innovations.

We also discuss what it's like to be a journalist covering crypto today, how the media industry

in crypto has changed in the years since the onset of the 2018 Bear Market

and the opportunities for more sophisticated high-quality journalism

in the space going forward.

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