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Events in crypto take place at warp speed. This weekly crypto podcast reveals how the marquee names in crypto are reacting to the week’s top headlines. With host Laura Shin, the guests also discuss what they’re thinking about these days and reveal what they believe is on the horizon in crypto. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.

Episode Date
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Feb 26, 2021
Girl Gone Crypto: How These Wildly Entertaining Crypto Videos Get Made - Ep.165
Feb 19, 2021
Michael Moro on Tesla's BTC Buy and the New Genesis Treasury - Ep.164
Feb 12, 2021
Why Asia Is So Important to Crypto - Ep.163
Feb 05, 2021
Why the GameStop Insanity Is So Similar to Crypto - Ep.162
Jan 29, 2021
Is Tether a Fraud? Its Bank Says It's Not - Ep.161
Jan 22, 2021
What You Need to Know About Bitcoin Layer 2s - Ep.160
Jan 15, 2021
2021 in Crypto: What to Expect in the Year Ahead - Ep.159
Jan 08, 2021
Laura's New Year's 2021 AMA: Your Questions About Privacy, the STABLE Act, Diem and More - Ep.158
Jan 01, 2021
Laura's Christmas 2020 AMA: Your Questions About Crypto Media and More - Ep.157
Dec 25, 2020
Beeple on How and Why He Raked In $3.5 Million - Ep.156
Dec 18, 2020
Why Rohan Grey Believes Stablecoin Issuers Need to Be Banks - Ep.155
Dec 11, 2020
How to Get Your ETH2 Yield and Take Out a Loan on It - Ep.154
Dec 04, 2020
Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption With Jeremy Allaire and Meltem Demirors - Ep.153
Nov 27, 2020
9 Ways Bitcoin Is at an All-Time High - Ep.152
Nov 20, 2020
Chad Cascarilla on Paxos's Partnership With PayPal - Ep.151
Nov 13, 2020
What the Crypto Industry Could See Under a Biden Administration - Ep.150
Nov 06, 2020
The 2 Types of Investors Driving Interest in Crypto - Ep.149
Oct 30, 2020
Willy Woo on Why It's 'an Extremely Great Time to Buy Bitcoin' - Ep.148
Oct 23, 2020
What You Need to Know About the DOJ's Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework - Ep.147
Oct 16, 2020
Abuse and Ethical Lapses: What Happened When Justin Sun Acquired BitTorrent - Ep.146
Oct 09, 2020
Coinbase in Turmoil: Why Employees Walked Out - Ep.145
Oct 02, 2020
Why NFTs Are Attracting Everyday People to Crypto - Ep.144
Sep 25, 2020
The First Crypto Bank: What Kraken Financial Will Do and How - Ep.143
Sep 18, 2020
How SushiSwap Proved That Liquidity Is Not a Moat - Ep.142
Sep 11, 2020
SushiSwap Takes On Uniswap: Which Should Win and Why? - Ep.141
Sep 04, 2020
Joseph Lubin on How JPMorgan's Quorum Will Fit In at ConsenSys - Ep.140
Aug 28, 2020
AMA With Laura: The Greatest Innovation in the Industry Right Now - Ep.139
Aug 21, 2020
Andreas Antonopoulos on Why the ETH Supply Debate Is 'Silly' - Ep.138
Aug 14, 2020
$5 Billion in AUM: Why Growth at Grayscale Exploded in the Last Quarter - Ep.137
Aug 07, 2020
Dmitry Buterin, Vitalik's Father, on Ethereum at 5 Years Old - Ep.136
Jul 31, 2020
'Twitter Will Be Fun Today': The College-Age Kids Who Hacked Into Twitter - Ep.135
Jul 24, 2020
Why Stablecoin Growth Over 5 Years Doubled in 4 Months - Ep.134
Jul 17, 2020
Will Coinbase Do a Token Offering When It Goes Public? - Ep.133
Jul 10, 2020
How This New Supply Metric Makes Buy Signals Clearer - Ep.132
Jul 03, 2020
How You Can Double Your Money -- Or Lose Everything - Ep.131
Jun 26, 2020
Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market - Ep.130
Jun 19, 2020
Why 'Cryptocurrency Would Not Exist Without Black People' - Ep.129
Jun 12, 2020
'Look for Opportunities' to Increase Diversity in Crypto - Ep.128
Jun 05, 2020
What Patoshi Is and How It Affects Craig Wright - Ep.127
May 29, 2020
The 'Brilliant Asshole' Who Almost Blew Up Coinbase - Ep.126
May 22, 2020
Bitcoin at the 3rd Halving: What We See From On-Chain Data - Ep.125
May 15, 2020
A Bitcoin Price of $115,000 Next Year? - Ep.124
May 08, 2020
Why 2020 Will Be the Year Bitcoin Becomes a Mature Asset - Ep.123
May 01, 2020
Haseeb Qureshi on the Unbelievable Story of the $25 Million Lendf.me Hack - Ep.122
Apr 24, 2020
12 Big Class-Action Lawsuits in Crypto: What, Who, How and Why - Ep.121
Apr 17, 2020
China's Crypto Industry and DCEP in the Time of Coronavirus - Ep.120
Apr 10, 2020
Coronavirus Relief and Its Impact on the Crypto Markets - Ep.119
Apr 03, 2020
What Happened on BitMEX During Black Thursday - Ep.118
Mar 27, 2020
Blockchain Tech's Storytelling Problem and How to Solve It - Ep.117
Mar 20, 2020
Coronavirus: How It Will Impact Bitcoin and the Halving - Ep.116
Mar 13, 2020
Steemit Chaos: Why Justin Sun and the Community Are at War - Ep.115
Mar 06, 2020
How Avanti Will Be a 'Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins' Bank - Ep.114
Feb 28, 2020
How 2 DeFi Attacks Made Almost $1 Million in Profit - Ep.113
Feb 21, 2020
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Her Safe Harbor Proposal - Ep.112
Feb 14, 2020
Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, on the Launch of Loop - Ep.111
Feb 07, 2020
Want a Job in Crypto? Exchanges Are Hiring - Ep.110
Jan 31, 2020
How DeFi Liquidators Make Money With Just Bots - Ep.109
Jan 24, 2020
PoolTogether: Save Money, With a Chance to Win - Ep.108
Jan 17, 2020
Why Bitcoin Outperformed Most of the Crypto Assets in 2019 - Ep.107
Jan 10, 2020
Kyle Samani on How 2020 Will Be the Year of Small Success Stories - Ep.106
Jan 03, 2020
How I Got SIM Swapped -- and How to Protect Yourself - Ep.105
Dec 27, 2019
Meltem Demirors on the First Decade of the Existence of Bitcoin - Ep.104
Dec 20, 2019
Larry Cermak of The Block on What 90% of Bitcoin Trading Is For - Ep.103
Dec 13, 2019
What Quadriga Really Was: 3 Theories About Gerald Cotten - Ep.102
Dec 06, 2019
How to Get 7% of Your Purchases Back in Bitcoin - Ep.101
Nov 29, 2019
How MakerDAO Now Features a Risk-Free Rate - Ep.100
Nov 22, 2019
An Interview With the Anonymous Developer of HKmap.live - Ep.99
Nov 15, 2019
Why Employees Cheered After Jihan Wu's Coup at Bitmain - Ep.98
Nov 08, 2019
Why the Digital Yuan Could One Day Be Seen as a Blunder - Ep.97
Nov 01, 2019
How the Hong Kong Protests Gave a Boost to Gods Unchained - Ep.96
Oct 25, 2019
How Bitcoin Led to the Demise of the Largest Child Porn Site - Ep.95
Oct 18, 2019
Althea Network: How Ethereum Is Used in the Real World - Ep.94
Oct 11, 2019
How Block.One Got Away With Just a $24 Million Penalty - Ep.93
Oct 04, 2019
Nick Tomaino on Why He Is Skeptical Libra Will Be Significant - Ep.92
Sep 27, 2019
How Tether's Surge on Ethereum Is Affecting Bitcoin - Ep.91
Sep 20, 2019
How Cryptocurrencies Could Threaten the State - Ep.90
Sep 13, 2019
Why Bitcoin Dominance Is at 70% - Ep.89
Sep 06, 2019
Why Ryan Zurrer Would Like to See a New DAO - Ep.88
Aug 30, 2019
Accepting Bitcoin Since 2011: Room77 in Berlin - Ep.87
Aug 23, 2019
Electric Capital on the Coins Punching Below Their Weight - Ep.86
Aug 16, 2019
Kik's Surprising Move in Its Lawsuit With the SEC - Ep.85
Aug 09, 2019
The IRS Is Cracking Down on Crypto Taxes: What You Need to Know - Ep.84
Aug 02, 2019
Jeremy Allaire on Why the US Government Needs a New Category for Digital Assets - Ep.83
Jul 26, 2019
Why the Congressional Hearings on Facebook's Libra Were Good for Bitcoin - Ep.82
Jul 19, 2019
Why Crypto Regulation Is Surprisingly Cypherpunk - Ep.81
Jul 12, 2019
Why It Would Be Good if Libra Rivaled the US Dollar - Ep.80
Jul 05, 2019
'Bitcoin Billionaires' Author Ben Mezrich on the Zuckerberg- Winklevoss Rivalry - Ep.079
Jun 28, 2019
Libra's Dante Disparte on Why We Should Trust a Financial System Designed by Facebook - Ep.078
Jun 21, 2019
Edgeware's Unusual Lockdrop: Get Tokens Even With Frozen Funds - Ep.077
Jun 14, 2019
LocalBitcoins on How Bitcoin Trading Compares Across the World - Ep.076
Jun 07, 2019
Ethereal 2019: DeFi and Paths to Everyday Usage - Ep.075
May 31, 2019
To the Moon and Back With Polychain's Olaf Carlson-Wee - Ep.074
May 24, 2019
Why HTC's Exodus 1s Will Have a Full Bitcoin Node - Ep.073
May 17, 2019
Binance Hack: Should the Threat of Reorgs Be Used to Deter Hackers? - Ep.072
May 10, 2019
What Happened to Bitfinex/Tether's $850 Million - Ep.071
May 03, 2019
Could Social Media Discontent Help the Decentralized Web? - Ep.070
Apr 26, 2019
Blockstack's Reg A+ Filing and the Future of Token Offerings - Ep.069
Apr 19, 2019
Coinbase Custody: Keep Your Crypto Safe and Use It Too - Ep.068
Apr 12, 2019
How Useful Is the SEC's Guidance on ICOs? - Ep.067
Apr 05, 2019
Why Has MakerDAO's Dai Struggled to Keep Its Dollar Peg? - Ep.066
Mar 29, 2019
Why Ethereum 2.0 Could Fail and How It Could Be Fixed - Ep.065
Mar 22, 2019
How Uniswap Quickly Became One of the Most Popular Dexes - Ep.064
Mar 15, 2019
Venue Announcement for Unchained Live
Mar 10, 2019
How to Earn Money on Collateral in DeFi — and Why That's Risky - Ep.063
Mar 08, 2019
After Massive Layoffs and Losses, What Are Bitmain's Future Prospects? - Ep.062
Mar 01, 2019
How AirTM Hopes to Get Venezuelans to Use Cryptocurrency - Ep.061
Feb 22, 2019
Unchained Live With Vitalik Buterin
Feb 20, 2019
How Korea's Crypto Scene Differs From That of the US - Ep.060
Feb 15, 2019
The QuadrigaCX Case: Taylor Monahan on What We Know From the Blockchain - Ep.059
Feb 08, 2019
Dan Morehead of Pantera Capital on Why This Crypto Winter Is Different - Ep.058
Feb 01, 2019
Why You Shouldn't Trust Crypto Exchange Reports for Your Taxes - Ep.057
Jan 25, 2019
When Is a Token Decentralized Enough to Not Be a Security? - Ep.056
Jan 18, 2019
The Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: How It Happened and Why the Price Didn't Crash - Ep.055
Jan 11, 2019
Arjun Balaji on the Ways Bitcoin Will Improve in 2019 - Ep.054
Jan 04, 2019
How PowerLedger Aims to Boost Renewable Energy - Ep.053
Dec 28, 2018
Bloomberg's Matt Leising on Why It Appears Tether Has Sufficient Dollar Reserves - Ep.052
Dec 21, 2018
Consensus: Invest 2018: Financial Products in 2019 and Beyond - Ep.051
Dec 19, 2018
Why ConsenSys Is 'Shifting From Experimentation to Excellence' - Ep.050
Dec 14, 2018
How ConsenSys Got So Big But Accomplished So Little - Ep.049
Dec 07, 2018
Jackson Palmer of Why We're Not Decentralized Yet - Ep.048
Nov 30, 2018
Laura's TEDx Talk: How Crypto Could Allow More People to Be Their Own Boss - Ep.047
Nov 23, 2018
The Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Bitcoin ABC vs. Bitcoin SV - Ep.046
Nov 16, 2018
Emin Gun Sirer on the SEC/EtherDelta Settlement and Why Code Is Speech - Ep.045
Nov 09, 2018
Charlie Lee, aka Satoshi Lite, on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper - Ep.044
Nov 02, 2018
Fidelity Digital Asset Services' Tom Jessop on Why It's Serving Institutional Clients First - Ep.043
Oct 26, 2018
Why the Tether Situation Brought Up Memories of Mt. Gox - Ep.042
Oct 19, 2018
How We're Misusing the Word 'Decentralization' - Ep.041
Oct 12, 2018
How Abra Enables You to Buy $5 of an ETF-Like Token of the Top 10 Cryptos - Ep.040
Oct 05, 2018
Rune Christensen of MakerDao on Its $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz - Ep.039
Sep 28, 2018
Why 'Ethereum Killers' Will Have a Hard Time Attracting Its Developers - Ep.038
Sep 21, 2018
Alex Sunnarborg of Tetras Capital on Why He's Bearish on Ether - Ep.037
Sep 14, 2018
Shapeshift's About-Face: Why Now? - Ep.036
Sep 07, 2018
Pamela Morgan on How to Pass Your Crypto Assets On to Your Heirs - Ep.035
Aug 31, 2018
Joe Lubin and Jimmy Song Work On the Terms of Their Bet on Dapps — and Trash Talk the Other’s Coin - Ep.034
Aug 24, 2018
How Crypto Will Give You More Flexibility in Your Work - Ep.033
Aug 17, 2018
Why the ICE/Bakkt News Makes Some Crypto Investors Nervous - Ep.032
Aug 10, 2018
A Place Where People May Be Using Crypto For More Than Speculation - Ep.031
Aug 03, 2018
CoinList's Andy Bromberg on the One Big Regulatory Issue Facing Crypto - Ep.030
Jul 27, 2018
Token Economy's Stefano Bernardi on How DAOs Could Create a Less Capitalist World - Ep.029
Jul 20, 2018
Special Episode with CNBC's Crypto Trader: Olaf Carlson-Wee on Why This Crypto Winter Is Different From Previous Ones - Ep.028
Jul 16, 2018
Willy Woo on Why He Thinks We're Nine Years Away From Half the World Using Bitcoin - Ep.027
Jul 13, 2018
Demian Brener, CEO of Zeppelin, on Which Smart Contract Platform Will Win - Ep.026
Jul 06, 2018
Multicoin's Kyle Samani on Why He Believes Bitcoin Governance Doesn't Accommodate the Real World - Ep.025
Jun 29, 2018
Behind the Tezos Scandal: Conflicts of Interest, Self-Dealing and Bullying - Ep.024
Jun 22, 2018
Coinbase's Adam White on a Momentous Day in Crypto - Ep.023
Jun 15, 2018
Joey Krug on How to Create a Regular Cryptocurrency - Ep.022
Jun 08, 2018
Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the First Crypto War - Ep.021
Jun 01, 2018
Jill Carlson on How Crypto Is Replicating Wall Street -- And Not in a Good Way - Ep.020
May 25, 2018
Mike Novogratz on Why Incumbents Are Still Well Positioned to Participate in Crypto Finance - Ep.019
May 18, 2018
Battling Corruption With Blockchain Technology: Tomicah Tillemann of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator - Ep.018
May 13, 2018
The UN World Food Programme's Blockchain-Based Food Vouchers for Syrian Refugees, With Robert Opp - Ep.017
May 12, 2018
From the Bellagio Blockchain Summit: Blockchain Ethics With Georgetown's Cara LaPointe - Ep.016
May 11, 2018
From the Multicoin Summit: Ryan Selkis of Messari on How to Fund Sustainable Journalism - Ep.015
May 07, 2018
Civic's Vinny Lingham on When Crypto Demand Will Catch Up With the Technology
May 04, 2018
Hu Liang of Omniex on What Institutional Players Are Planning to Do in Crypto
Apr 27, 2018
Don Wilson of DRW Holdings on What's Been Driving 2018's Crypto Downturn
Apr 20, 2018
How Meltem Demirors Uncovers True Value in Crypto Investments
Apr 13, 2018
Chris Burniske of Placeholder on the Downsides of ICOs
Apr 06, 2018
Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital on the Crypto Downturn and Why It Could Change Direction
Mar 30, 2018
Arianna Simpson of Autonomous Partners on Privacy, Cryptokitties and Crypto Regulation
Mar 23, 2018
Caitlin Long on How 'Utility Tokens' Are Now Legal In Wyoming
Mar 16, 2018
SXSW Episode: Amber Baldet, Blockchain Program Lead at JPMorgan, on the Potential Clash Between Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten
Mar 15, 2018
SXSW Episode: Former DOJ Prosecutor Kathryn Haun on What the SEC Subpoenas and FinCen Letter Likely Mean
Mar 14, 2018
Spencer Bogart on Bitcoin's Maturation and the SEC Overhang on Crypto
Mar 09, 2018
The Gender Imbalance in Crypto: Jalak Jobanputra on Why It's a Problem and Her Effort to Fix It
Mar 02, 2018
Brian Kelly on Token-Curated Registries, Robinhood Crypto Trading and the Petro
Feb 23, 2018
Olaf Carlson-Wee on Whether $100 Million Worth of Frozen Ether Should Be Restored
Feb 16, 2018
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Feb 09, 2018