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
Oslo Freedom Forum 2019: Protecting Financial Freedoms in the Digital Age - Ep.123
In this panel, recorded at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019, I moderated what an attendee described as a "lively" discussion on the relationship between finances and freedom with Bitcoin author and educat…
00:54:30 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain, on Its Dark Pool, Crypto Lending Operation and Intention to Go Public - Ep.122
Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, discusses how the company got started, why the company is focused on users owning their own private keys and how that is what enables all the most interesting appl…
01:11:26 |
Tue 04 Jun 2019
Kin Sets Up $5 Million DefendCrypto.org to Take on the SEC - Ep.121
Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik and the founder of the Kin Foundation, and Patrick Gibbs, partner at Cooley, announce the formation of the $5 million DefendCrypto.org fund at Coinbase Custody to fight the…
01:12:36 |
Tue 28 May 2019
How to Trade on Crypto Exchanges Without Fear of Hacks - Ep.120
Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen and Boston University computer science professor, describes how the protocol enables people to trade on crypto exchanges without making their coins vulnerable to exchang…
01:09:16 |
Tue 21 May 2019
Parity's Jutta Steiner and Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Substrate and the Frozen Funds - Ep.119
Jutta Steiner, CEO of Parity, and Gavin Wood, who goes by the title "chief white space officer," describe the network Parity plans to launch later this year, Polkadot, how it aims to solve scalabilit…
01:12:54 |
Tue 14 May 2019
How Tagomi Makes Large Crypto Trades Cheaper and More Efficient - Ep.118
Jennifer Campbell and Kevin Johnson, cofounder and COO, respectively, of Tagomi, describe how Tagomi helps institutional players make larger crypto trades more efficiently and at the best price possi…
00:55:09 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Want to Connect Blockchains? Cosmos Has Tools for Coders - Ep.117
Jae Kwon, founder and CEO of Tendermint and president of the Interchain Foundation, and Ethan Buchman, cofounder of Tendermint and Cosmos and technical director of the Interchain Foundation, discuss …
01:04:30 |
Tue 30 Apr 2019
Charlie Lee on How Litecoin Can Be Truly Successful - Ep.116
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and aka SatoshiLite, discusses how he came to launch Litecoin, how the "fair" launch may have helped its success, why he didn't work on it for a stretch, and what…
01:07:09 |
Tue 23 Apr 2019
Why Beam Thinks Businesses Will Use Its Cryptocurrency - Ep.115
Alexander Zaidelson, the CEO of Beam, a cryptocurrency being built on the MimbleWimble protocol, talks about how he came to start Beam, how it differs from Grin, another cryptocurrency being built on…
01:02:58 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Grin: A More Private, Lighter Bitcoin - Ep.114
Daniel Lehnberg and Michael Cordner, core team members of Grin, discuss the first implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol, named after a tongue-tying curse in Harry Potter. We discuss the many wa…
01:08:30 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Why You Shouldn't Have to Be Rich to Get Rich - Ep.113
In a fireside chat I moderated with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce held by the Blockchain Digital Asset Forum, in conjunction with the NYU Stern Executive MBA program, on March 26, 2019, she explaine…
01:05:14 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
Vitalik Buterin on Whether or Not Ethereum Is 'Blowing It' - Ep.112
At the first Unchained Live, Vitalik explained why he thought it was "inevitable" Ethereum would lose some of its lead, when he would be upset if Ethereum were overtaken by a competitor, and whether …
01:23:16 |
Tue 26 Mar 2019
MolochDAO: Could This Decentralized Autonomous Organization Help Ethereum Scale Faster? - Ep.111
Ameen Soleimani, CEO of Spankchain, comes on the show to discuss his latest effort to fund Ethereum development through the decentralized autonomous organization MolochDAO. He describes how it works,…
01:05:07 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
How Binance Could Become the First Decentralized Autonomous Corporation - Ep.110
Tushar Jain and Kyle Samani, managing partners of Multicoin Capital, discuss Binance, Binance Chain and BNB token, and why they believe Binance will become the first centralized company to successful…
01:03:51 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Venue Announcement for Unchained Live
Get your tickets now for Unchained Live with Vitalik Buterin! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unchained-live-with-vitalik-buterin-tickets-56189456176 It will take place March 20th at 6pm at Columbia …
00:02:23 |
Sun 10 Mar 2019
How Melon Could Make Asset Management Easier - Ep.109
Mona El-Isa, the cofounder and CEO of Melonport, explains how Melon, the asset management protocol which recently launched on Ethereum, makes launching a fund easier and less expensive, plus gives in…
01:01:56 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
How Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies Everywhere - Ep.108
Glen Weyl, a political economist and social technologist, the coauthor of Radical Markets and a principal researcher at Microsoft, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, discuss how block…
01:13:13 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
Unchained Live With Vitalik Buterin
In case you haven’t heard, I’m doing a live podcast recording with Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum. What is a live podcast recording? It's a podcast performed by me and the guest on a stage,…
00:01:35 |
Wed 20 Feb 2019
Why Future Perfect Ventures Did Not Invest in ICOs - Ep.107
Jalak Jobanputra, founder and managing partner of Future Perfect Ventures, talks about how, in 2014, her experience as an investment bank and VC, her global background, and her observation that new s…
01:04:38 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
How Casa Makes It Harder for Someone to Steal Your Bitcoins - Ep.106
Jeremy Welch of personal key security system Casa describes the company's various services and products, including its $10,000-a-year premium service for HODLers of at least $500,000 worth of cryptoc…
01:09:07 |
Tue 12 Feb 2019
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