How Did You Deal With Factual Disagreements in the Book?

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There's clearly so much in the book that a lot of people wouldn't want known, or wouldn't want to be said about them. We felt comfortable doing it cause we really had a lot of good back up. And you'll notice, you know, whenever we only had something from one source, we would say that or emYou know, there is just so many ways we kind of like, phrase things a certain way just to sure that we could feel comfortable and stand behind everything that was in the book.

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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