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. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 934
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum's Five-Year Anniversary - Ep.183
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shares his thoughts on the five-year anniversary of Ethereum, challenges with ETH 2.0 and criticisms about DeFi. We discuss:
his thoughts and feelings ahead…
01:30:28 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Camila Russo on the Most Pivotal Moments in Ethereum's History - Ep.182
Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant and author of a new book on Ethereum, "The Infinite Machine," speaks about how currency controls in Argentina got her interested in crypto and explains why she ch…
01:03:14 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Why Bitcoin Now: Michael Casey and Niall Ferguson on How Bitcoin Fits in the History of Money - Ep.181
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the author of numerous books including The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and mos…
01:27:22 |
Tue 14 Jul 2020
DeFi Yield Farming: Why It's All the Rage But Risky - Ep.180
Dan Elitzer, investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Will Price, data scientist at Flipside Crypto, discuss the yield farming craze. In this episode, we cover:
the goals of protocols offering liquidit…
01:11:44 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Why Bitcoin Now: Mike Novogratz and Raoul Pal on 'the Single Greatest Brand' of the Last 10 Years - Ep.179
This episode is the first in a series, Why Bitcoin Now, that takes a deeper dive into Bitcoin and the history of money in the macroeconomic environment of the coronavirus. Mike Novogratz, founder, CE…
01:11:44 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Chamath Palihapitiya: Why Bitcoin Will Be 'the Category Winner' - Ep.178
Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of Social Capital and chairman of Virgin Galactic, talks about a wide range of issues, including Bitcoin, COVID, civil unrest, and broad economic trends and forecasts. W…
01:12:21 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Christopher Giancarlo: Why the US Needs to Have a Digital Dollar - Ep.177
At an event at the NYU Stern School of Business, Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC Chairman and co-founder of the Digital Dollar Foundation, discusses his proposal for a US central bank digital curr…
00:55:15 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Rep. Warren Davidson: 'I Think Bitcoin Is a Great Store of Value' - Ep.176
U.S. House Representative, Warren Davidson, contextualizes the state of crypto legislation in terms of widespread civil unrest, COVID-19, and global shifts in power. He explains where crypto plays a …
01:03:28 |
Tue 09 Jun 2020
How to Decentralize a Crypto Project Without Harming Security - Ep.175
Jesse Walden of Variant Fund, and Robert Leshner of Compound explain all of the problems associated with the decentralizing process in terms of governance and compliance, pulling from their own lesso…
01:07:53 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Ready Layer One: Who Competes With Ethereum? - Ep.174
This week’s Unchained is my panel at Ready Layer One! We talk everything layer one with four key players and projects -- Illia Polosukhin of NEARprotocol, Zaki Manian of Cosmos, Rob Habermeier of Pol…
01:04:28 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Listen to CZ Compare Binance to Bitcoin - Ep.173
Changpeng Zhao, aka CZ, cofounder and CEO of Binance, and I kicked off the Ethereal Virtual Summit with a fun fireside chat! He talked about Binance’s current operations, its plans for the future, an…
00:50:50 |
Tue 19 May 2020
The Third Bitcoin Halving Just Happened: What Now? - Ep.172
Amanda Fabiano, director of Bitcoin mining at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, and Christopher Bendiksen, head of research at CoinShares, discuss the third Bitcoin halving, which occurred …
01:09:15 |
Tue 12 May 2020
El Auge de MakerDAO: Un Viaje Personal - Ep.171
Hi everyone, this is an essay by Mariano Conti of MakerDAO that was so popular, personal and relatable, especially to those living in Latin America, that we decided to have Mariano translate it and r…
00:35:22 |
Wed 06 May 2020
DeFi Security: With So Many Hacks, Will It Ever Be Safe? - Ep.170
Dan Guido, cofounder and CEO of Trail of Bits, and Taylor Monahan, founder and CEO of MyCrypto, discuss all the recent hacks in DeFi, how it can be made more safely and who is responsible.
We tackl…
01:16:57 |
Tue 05 May 2020
tBTC: What Happens When the Most Liquid Crypto Asset Hits DeFi? - Ep.169
Matt Luongo, CEO of Thesis, the parent company of Fold and Keep, describes the just-launched tBTC, his plan for a censorship-resistant Bitcoin-Ethereum bridge. He explains his personal reasons for wa…
01:14:36 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Why Nothing Is More Viral Than a Store of Value - Ep.168
Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, and Yassine Elmandjra, ARK's thematic analyst, discuss their investment strategy with disruptive innovation, and how blockchain technology, especially Bitcoin,…
01:15:27 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
The Rise of MakerDAO: A Personal Journey - Ep.167
Mariano Conti of MakerDAO, head of smart contracts at MakerDAO, reads from his essay about his personal experience with cryptocurrency, particularly as an Argentine whose family has experienced perio…
00:34:18 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
The Most Forkable DeFi Protocols on Ethereum - Ep.166
Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital reads from his essay on how defensible each of the major DeFi protocols on Ethereum are, and what that says about Ethereum's defensibility. He evaluates how easy it …
00:25:21 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think - Ep.165
In this essay, Haseeb Qureshi of Dragonfly Capital explains why he thinks the focus on decentralization can be overhyped. He looks at why decentralization can be important but then makes it clear, by…
00:32:49 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Teetering on the Edge: How Black Thursday Exposed the Flaws in the Crypto Markets - Ep.164
Kyle Samani, managing partner at Multicoin Capital, dissects Black Thursday, March 12, the day the crypto markets plunged twice amid the wider sell-off in the markets due to the coronavirus. He offer…
00:59:12 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
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