Theorium and Crypto

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When i started, people were still friendly and open. At that time, this a rhetoric with the hostility didn't exist. So it's not surprising to me that a lot of journalists make mistakes in the beginning. And crepto people can be a little bit intolerant and um, they're like, very quick to point out flas there. They're no at alls.

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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