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Girl Gone Crypto: How These Wildly Entertaining Crypto Videos Get Made - Ep.165

Lea Thompson, aka Girl Gone Crypto, talks about what goes into producing her popular “The Crypto Minute” vlog, what initially got her into crypto, and...

Michael Moro on Tesla's BTC Buy and the New Genesis Treasury - Ep.164

Michael Moro, CEO of Genesis Global, discusses Tesla’s purchase of $1.5 billion in bitcoin and Genesis’s new unit: Genesis Treasury. He also talks abo...

Why Asia Is So Important to Crypto - Ep.163

Mira Christanto, research analyst at Messari, recently wrote a comprehensive report on the crypto scene in Asia. In this episode, she covers cultural...

Why the GameStop Insanity Is So Similar to Crypto - Ep.162

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX, describes what happened between the Subreddit Wall Street Bets and hedge funds around the stock of GameStop...

Is Tether a Fraud? Its Bank Says It's Not - Ep.161

Gregory Pepin, deputy CEO of Deltec Bank and Trust, responds to allegations in a blog post by the pseudonymous Crypto Anonymous, that Tether is a "hig...

What You Need to Know About Bitcoin Layer 2s - Ep.160

Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at Coinshares, and Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Ventures, join me at the Stacks conference to...

2021 in Crypto: What to Expect in the Year Ahead - Ep.159

Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block, gives his predictions for what will happen in crypto in 2021. In this episode, we discuss:
the...

Laura's New Year's 2021 AMA: Your Questions About Privacy, the STABLE Act, Diem and More - Ep.158

For the holidays, I'm doing two AMAs. In the second of two, I cover:
privacy blockchains
my thoughts on the STABLE Act
whether o...

Laura's Christmas 2020 AMA: Your Questions About Crypto Media and More - Ep.157

For the holidays, I'm doing two AMAs. In this first of two, I cover:
how my book is going
tips for aspiring podcasters
what it's...

Beeple on How and Why He Raked In $3.5 Million - Ep.156

Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist also known as Beeple who has made an artwork every day for over 13 years, talks about the NFT auctions he held las...

Why Rohan Grey Believes Stablecoin Issuers Need to Be Banks - Ep.155

Rohan Grey, assistant professor at Willamette Law, talks about the STABLE Act, which would require stable coin issuers to obtain a banking charter, re...

How to Get Your ETH2 Yield and Take Out a Loan on It - Ep.154

James Slazas, founder and CEO of LiquidStake and DARMA Capital, describes their retail and institutional offerings for customers who want to stake on...

Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption With Jeremy Allaire and Meltem Demirors - Ep.153

This episode is a discussion from Stellar's Meridian conference, in which I moderated the panel, Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption, featuring J...

9 Ways Bitcoin Is at an All-Time High - Ep.152

Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Ventures, and cofounder and chairman of Coin Metrics, explains  why the Bitcoin price has been rising wit...

Chad Cascarilla on Paxos's Partnership With PayPal - Ep.151

Paxos CEO and cofounder Chad Cascarilla discusses his company's partnership with PayPal, which just opened up its crypto purchase and selling product...

What the Crypto Industry Could See Under a Biden Administration - Ep.150

Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association and a board member of HODLpac, discusses how advocating for crypto will change under w...

The 2 Types of Investors Driving Interest in Crypto - Ep.149

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management, discusses a milestone Bitwise reached this week -- hitting $100 million in assets u...

Willy Woo on Why It's 'an Extremely Great Time to Buy Bitcoin' - Ep.148

Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, discusses how the Bitcoin markets have bee...

What You Need to Know About the DOJ's Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework - Ep.147

Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia, headed up the team that has prosecuted what some believe is th...

Abuse and Ethical Lapses: What Happened When Justin Sun Acquired BitTorrent - Ep.146

Freelance reporter and audio producer Chris Harland-Dunaway speaks about his long investigative story on Tron founder Justin Sun after his acquisition...

Coinbase in Turmoil: Why Employees Walked Out - Ep.145

Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block, discusses a controversial blog post by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong about how the company intends to ta...

Why NFTs Are Attracting Everyday People to Crypto - Ep.144

Jake Brukhman, cofounder and CEO of CoinFund, explains why people are excited about non-fungible tokens, how they can be used, and what new behaviors...

The First Crypto Bank: What Kraken Financial Will Do and How - Ep.143

David Kinitsky, CEO of Kraken Financial, talks about Kraken's news that it is launching a bank, after receiving approval to form a special purpose dep...

How SushiSwap Proved That Liquidity Is Not a Moat - Ep.142

0xMaki, a cofounder of SushiSwap explains how and why he got involved in this project forked from SushiSwap, why he thinks his view of decentralizatio...

SushiSwap Takes On Uniswap: Which Should Win and Why? - Ep.141

Nadav Hollander, cofounder and CEO of Dharma, discusses the war currently being waged between Uniswap and SushiSwap, how this is driving up fees on Et...

Joseph Lubin on How JPMorgan's Quorum Will Fit In at ConsenSys - Ep.140

Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and cofounder of Ethereum, discusses ConsenSys's acquisition this week of JPMorgan's blockchain solution, Quorum. I...

AMA With Laura: The Greatest Innovation in the Industry Right Now - Ep.139

In this episode, I answer some questions submitted to me via Twitter. I take the audience behind the scenes at Unconfirmed and Unchained to discuss:

Andreas Antonopoulos on Why the ETH Supply Debate Is 'Silly' - Ep.138

Andreas Antonopoulos, speaker, educator and author of "Mastering Bitcoin" and "Mastering Ethereum," dives into the ETH supply debate that raged over t...

$5 Billion in AUM: Why Growth at Grayscale Exploded in the Last Quarter - Ep.137

Michael Sonnenshein, managing director of Grayscale Investments, talks about the strong growth in investment in its products, with inflows in Q2 total...

Dmitry Buterin, Vitalik's Father, on Ethereum at 5 Years Old - Ep.136

Dmitry Buterin, father of Vitalik Buterin and cofounder of BlockGeeks, discusses Ethereum at 5 years old. In this episode, he talks about:
how...

'Twitter Will Be Fun Today': The College-Age Kids Who Hacked Into Twitter - Ep.135

Haseeb Awan, CEO of Efani, a secure and private cell phone service, talks about how he became acquainted with hackers who took over prominent accounts...

Why Stablecoin Growth Over 5 Years Doubled in 4 Months - Ep.134

Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at Coin Metrics, discusses a report on the rise of stablecoins over the last few months that Coin Metrics publis...

Will Coinbase Do a Token Offering When It Goes Public? - Ep.133

Jeff Roberts, senior reporter at Fortune and author of "King of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall...

How This New Supply Metric Makes Buy Signals Clearer - Ep.132

Ben Celermajer, index manager at Coin Metrics, talks about a new metric Coin Metrics introduced this week, called free float supply. In this episode,...

How You Can Double Your Money -- Or Lose Everything - Ep.131

Angel investor and writer Tony Sheng explains what yield farming is, why it's been such a craze, and whether or not the trend is sustainable. We discu...

Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market - Ep.130

Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, discusses the launch of the COMP token this week, including:
why the price of COMP tokens popped
ho...

Why 'Cryptocurrency Would Not Exist Without Black People' - Ep.129

Robby Greenfield, the CEO of Emerging Impact and the former head of social impact and diversity programming at ConsenSys, talks about how the crypto c...

'Look for Opportunities' to Increase Diversity in Crypto - Ep.128

Steven McKie, CEO and founding partner at Amentum Capital, discusses the incidents involving Amy Cooper and George Floyd and the resulting protests, a...

What Patoshi Is and How It Affects Craig Wright - Ep.127

Sergio Lerner, the head of innovation of IOV Labs and the creator of the Rootstock side chain, describes a pattern he discovered in early Bitcoin mini...