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Laura Shin

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…

Mar 1, 2022

Mar 1, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Feb 22, 2022

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

Feb 22, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Feb 9, 2022

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

Feb 9, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Feb 4, 2022

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

Feb 4, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Jan 28, 2022

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

Jan 28, 2022

Laura Shin

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.

Jan 26, 2022

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

Jan 26, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Jan 7, 2022

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

Jan 7, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Jan 4, 2022

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

Jan 4, 2022

Laura Shin

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…

Dec 31, 2021

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

Dec 31, 2021

Laura Shin

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.

Dec 21, 2021

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

Dec 21, 2021

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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