Unchained
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world.
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Shapeshift's Erik Voorhees on How Crypto Will S...
Erik Voorhees says the greatest scam perpetrated on mankind is currency debasement -- and that crypto will change all that. In this wide-ranging interview, the CEO of crypto-to-crypto exchange Shapeshift talks about how crypto will take away power...
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Xapo's Wences Casares on How Bitcoin Makes a Fa...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us find more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Growing up in Argentina, Wences Casares saw his family lose all their money three times due to actions by the government....
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The Tax Rules That Have Crypto Users Aghast
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: Tax attorney Tyson Cross and CPA Jason Tyra discuss all things crypto and taxes, including what types of crypto transactions are taxable events, how you'll...
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Vitalik Buterin, Creator Of Ethereum, On The Bi...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: The 23-year-old whiz dives into who blockchains will someday help, how we transition from Ethereum for digital cats to higher social impact, and why even...
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Crypto 101: Everything You Need To Know About B...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: In this special bonus episode, Laura cover all your basic questions about crypto. What is Bitcoin? What is Ethereum? What is a blockchain? Share this...
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How Crypto And Blockchain Technology Should Be ...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: Marco Santori, who leads the blockchain technology team at Cooley, and Joshua Ashley Klayman, who leads the blockchain and smart contracts group at...
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Naval Ravikant On How Crypto Is Squeezing VCs, ...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: The executive chairman of AngelList and partner at crypto hedge fund MetaStable explains how blockchains are changing the entrepreneurship model, his...
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What Bitcoin's History Says About Its Future
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: Days after the SegWit2x fork was called off, Nathaniel Popper, New York Times tech reporter and author of the book Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside...
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What Will Happen At The Time Of The Bitcoin Har...
As Bitcoin faces the biggest test in its nine-year history, two players on opposing sides -- Mike Belshe of BitGo and Bitcoin protocol developer Matt Corallo -- debate how the community got here and what the definition of Bitcoin is -- whether the...
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How To Value A Crypto Asset
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: Chris Burniske of Placeholder Ventures has recently come out with a new book, "Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investors' Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond" that...
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How To Explain Cryptocurrencies And Blockchains...
Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: Tired of having your friends and family say cryptocurrencies are a Ponzi scheme, nothing backs them, they're in a bubble and only criminals use them? In...
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From Blockchains To Mooncakes: Two Chinese Cryp...
Da Hongfei of NEO and Patrick Dai of Qtum tell us just how crazy China's ICO craze was getting, with mooncake companies, celebs and Ponzi schemers all jumping on the blockchain train. They also explain what the reaction was to the ICO and bitcoin...
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Blockstack On Getting Independence From Google,...
Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, the cofounders of Blockstack, on how their tools enable users to control their own data, why the internet should have universal usernames but no company should control that, and why Blockstack’s storage system still allows...
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The High-Speed World Of ICOs: Smith and Crown D...
Brian Lio, CEO of cryptofinance research site Smith and Crown, and head of research Matt Chwierut discuss how they do their research, how they decide which projects to cover in-depth rather than just list and when they provide advisory services for...
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How Bitcoin Solved This Serial Entrepreneur's P...
Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob has launched numerous companies, but it was a blogging platform that presented her with the problem of how to pay her (mostly female) users, 99% of whom did not have bank accounts. And even if they did get paid, their...
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Why November Will Be The Real Test For Bitcoin
Bitcoin core developer Eric Lombrozo and OB1 CEO Brian Hoffman debate whether SegWit2x is the best path forward, discuss who supported it and why, and whether the potential for a hard fork harms the price. They also discuss what happens to the power...
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Listener Qs: Laura On Ponzi Schemes, Bubbles, G...
In this episode, coming one day after the release of my Forbes cover story online, I answer listener questions, starting with my background, the history of the podcast, whether or not I trade or invest in crypto, and what tokens I think have the...
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Why Digital Currency Group's Meltem Demirors Is...
The DCG director of development talks about why she thinks identity will be the first tangible application of blockchain technology that consumers experience, why DCG supports Ethereum Classic as an investment vehicle and yet still supports Ethereum...
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'Bitcoin Oracle' Vinny Lingham On Why Bitcoin I...
The Civic CEO and cofounder explains how his upbringing in South Africa and his experience at former company Gyft led him to launch a startup focused on identity. It was also at Gyft that he realized how enthusiastic the bitcoin and cryptocurrency...
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ICOs: Why People Are Investing In This $380 Mil...
Don't forget to take the Unchained podcast survey: Developers of new cryptocurrencies are raising gobs of money with little more than a white paper. Though real advances are likely to emerge from the trend, the bubble could get worse before it gets...
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IBM's Jerry Cuomo On Everything From Blockchain...
Thanks to all the listeners who've let me know what you want to hear more of, what you like about the show, and who you want to see as guests. If you haven't yet, have a say in the direction of the show -- tell me what you like, what the podcast...
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This VC Is Sure Venture Capital Is About To Be ...
Don't forget to take the Unchained Podcast survey! 's recent BCAP token offering is a harbinger of things to come in venture capital and private equity, says the firm's managing director Brock Pierce. And Stan Misohnik, the CEO and...
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Why Bitcoin May Split In Two And How To Prevent It
Please take the Unchained podcast survey! The bitcoin community is mired in a civil war. In this episode of the Unchained podcast, supporters of opposing sides -- former Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee --...
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Bobby Lee, CEO Of BTCC, On Why The Chinese Prob...
Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC, one of the world's longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, talks about whether Chinese people are using bitcoin to evade capital controls, how bitcoin trading in China has changed since a government crackdown in early...
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Why The First Employee Of Coinbase Launched A H...
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder of Polychain Capital, a hedge fund that has invested $15 million into digital assets and has gotten backing from storied venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. In this episode, Carlson-Wee...
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