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TED Speaker
Laura Shin
Author, crypto journalist, podcast host
TED Speaker
laurashin.com
Unchained Podcast
@laurashin
TED Speaker
Laura Shin covers big ideas from the world of blockchain and cyrptocurrency.
Why you should listen
Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the
Unchained
podcast
and
newsletter
and author of
The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze
. Formerly a senior editor at
Forbes
, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time.
Laura Shin’s TED talk
56:25
Laura Shin
Demystifying the wild world of crypto
Posted
Dec 2022