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

• Another Bad Week for Sam Bankman-Fried in His Criminal Trial - Ep. 558
• SBF Trial, From the Courthouse: Former FTX General Counsel Testifies About the $7B Hole
• SBF Trial, Day 11: How Alameda Got FTX Into a $9 Billion Hole
• SBF Trial, From the Courtroom: FTX and Alameda's Bank Accounts Kept 'Far Less' Than They Owed
• SBF Trial, From the Courtroom: Judge Kaplan Is Annoyed by the Prosecution
• SBF Trial, From the Courtroom: Nishad Singh's Testimony Strengthens Prosecution?
• SBF Trial, Day 7: In SBF Trial, Did the Defense Lose Its Opportunity With the Star Witness?
• SBF Trial, Day 6: Caroline Ellison Recalls 'The Worst Week of My Life
• SBF Trial, Day 5: SBF's Defense Finally Found Its Legs, But Can It Counter Caroline Ellison?
• SBF Trial, Day 4: SBF's Lawyers Annoy Judge Kaplan, While Wang Reveals Alameda’s Special Privileges
• SBF Trial, Day 3: Why a True Believer in FTX Flipped Once He Learned One Fact
• SBF Trial, Day 2: DOJ: Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Lied’ His Way to ‘Wealth, Power, and Influence’
• SBF Trial, Day 1: Possible Witnesses Include FTX Insiders, Big Names in Crypto, and SBF’s Family
• How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case
• Rune Christensen’s Audacious Plan to Fix DAO Governance - Ep. 534
• Two VCs on Why This Is the Perfect Time to Invest in Crypto - Ep. 522
• Circuit Breakers: Is ERC-7265 the Solution dApps Were Waiting For? - Ep. 515
• Prometheum and Paradigm in Debate: Can the Status Quo Work for Crypto? - Ep. 511
• Binance.US Fights the SEC - Do Kwon Is Sentenced
• BlackRock Applies for Bitcoin Spot ETF - Ripple Pushes SEC Probe
• New Crypto Bill in the US - $35 Million Exploit
• Laura Shin Reflects on 500 Episodes of ‘Unchained’ - Ep.500
• SBF in Hot Water, Binance's Massive Layoffs
• Binance in Question - FTX's Possible Reboot