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Laura Shin

How Crypto Got So Caught Up in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Crypto quickly became embroiled in the Russia/Ukraine conflict that broke out last week, a sign of how embroiled it has become in the wider…

3 min readMar 1, 2022

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Who Hacked the DAO on Ethereum? Here’s How We Jumped Past One Critical Step

Ethereum, the second-largest crypto network, has achieved success well beyond what its creator, Vitalik Buterin, could have imagined when…

4 min readFeb 22, 2022

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Who Hacked the DAO on Ethereum? Here’s How We Jumped Past One Critical Step

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Two Were Arrested in Connection to Billions in Hacked Bitcoin. But Who Did It?

On Tuesday, the federal government seized more than 94,000 Bitcoin ($3.6 billion) directly connected to the 2016 hack of a crypto exchange…

5 min readFeb 9, 2022

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Two Were Arrested in Connection to Billions in Hacked Bitcoin. But Who Did It?

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Why These Two Congressional Candidates Say Democrats Should Be Pro-Crypto

From a young age, growing up in Ohio, Morgan Harper became aware that, in the United States, there wasn’t equal access to opportunity. She…

4 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Why These Two Congressional Candidates Say Democrats Should Be Pro-Crypto

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How a Pro-Bitcoin Stance Has Helped Aarika Rhodes in Her Congressional Run

Crypto is at a pivotal moment in the United States. For years, tension has been building over how it should be regulated, and it seems that…

4 min readJan 28, 2022

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How a Pro-Bitcoin Stance Has Helped Aarika Rhodes in Her Congressional Run

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This Protocol Aims to Make DeFi More Like Traditional Finance in One Key Way

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has taken off in the last couple years and now has more than $190 billion of value locked in it.

5 min readJan 26, 2022

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This Protocol Aims to Make DeFi More Like Traditional Finance in One Key Way

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How Many New Developers Joined Web3 in 2021? More Than 34,000

This week, Electric Capital released its 2021 developer report on the developer ecosystems in crypto — and it shows that interest in Web3…

5 min readJan 7, 2022

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How Many New Developers Joined Web3 in 2021? More Than 34,000

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Crypto Markets 2022: Why It Looks Like We Might Be in a Supercycle

Traditionally, at the end of the calendar year following a Bitcoin halving, the crypto markets have reached new all-time highs. This…

4 min readJan 4, 2022

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Crypto Markets 2022: Why It Looks Like We Might Be in a Supercycle

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How Mitchell Chan Found the First Art NFTs Before NFTs Even Existed

In 2017, Mitchell F. Chan had been an artist for over a decade, incorporating technology into his artwork in order to make commentary on…

4 min readDec 31, 2021

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How Mitchell Chan Found the First Art NFTs Before NFTs Even Existed

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How Does This Noble Family Maintain 20,000 Cultural Objects? With NFTs, of Course

William Lobkowicz is a would-be Czech prince, whose family has been patrons of the arts for more than 700 years.

5 min readDec 21, 2021

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Laura Shin

Laura Shin

I’m a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained pod, and author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.

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