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This week's podcast is brought to you by super pump, the battle for uber. The number one half hour comedy on prime video is back. Anda hosts a new book called the cryptopians about the early days of etherium and this gigantic hack that almost destroyed it.

Laura Shin is a journalist covering cryptocurrency and hosts the podcast Unchained. Her new book is The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.

“I was extremely well-acquainted with what the failings were with our traditional financial system. I was seeing through my other reporting how everything works now, and really understanding, whoa, this is not a good system. And then getting this education on what bitcoin is, I understood right away: wow, this is going to change the world.”

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