Laura Shin

Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, the founder and host of the Unchained podcast, and the author of "The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze" (PublicAffairs, 2022), a definitive account of Ethereum's early years. A former senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full time, and while researching her book she and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum. Launched in 2016, Unchained is one of the longest-running and most popular crypto podcasts, and her shows and videos have drawn tens of millions of downloads and views. A graduate of Stanford and Columbia's journalism school, she is now working on a book about the collapse of FTX.

427 talks by Laura Shin

• PaperTrade Attracted $140M, Then Changed the Rules. Was It a Bait and Switch?
• 'Bunker Mode': Is Crypto's Cryptography Running Out of Time?
• Tampered Ledgers: How Far Does the Supply Chain Attack Go?
• After the Ledger Hack and Quantum Warnings, Is Self-Custody 'Slowly Dying'?
• AI Agents, Quantum, and ETH
• Is the $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? Wallets Say It Isn't
• How a Third-Party Zero-Day Let Hackers Drain $388 Million From Bitget
• Inside Bitget's $388M Hack: How the Attackers Got In
• Why the Crypto Market Cap Could Reach $50 Trillion This Cycle
• Ran Neuner: The Four-Year Cycle Was Always Dead
• 'Like a Peanut Butter Allergy': Why Institutions Need Onchain Privacy
• Zcash vs. NEAR: Two Very Different Privacy Bets
• Clarity Died in the Senate. Does Crypto Even Need a Law Now?
• 'The Crypto User Is Not That Loyal At All': Guy Young on Ethena's New Neobank
• Guy Young on How to Build a 10 Times Better Product on Blockchain Rails
• Should Robinhood Have Gotten Issuer Consent Before Tokenizing AMC's Stock?
• In AI Agent Court, How Do Up to 1,500 AI Validators Judge Who Is Right?
• How GenLayer Is Building a Court System for Disputes Between AI Agents
• Why a Single Word Will Decide Who Can Trade Perps in the U.S.
• Why the Question Over How to Regulate Perps Has Turned Into a Fight
• Robinhood Chain's Memecoin Boom + Tokenized Stocks
• Did Bessent's Treasury Buyback Spark Bitcoin's Rally to $80K?
• Why a Hidden Public Key Still Can't Protect Your Bitcoin From Quantum Computing
• Arthur Hayes Bets Crypto Wins When the AI Bubble Bursts