Asia Tech Podcast spoke to Ethan Lou.  Ethan is a journalist and author, whose most recent book, "Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West", was published on October 19.  

According to the book's summary on Amazon, "Ethan Lou goes on an epic quest through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West, through riches, absurdity, wonder, and woe. From investing in Bitcoin in university to his time writing for Reuters, and then mining the digital asset ― Lou meets a co-founder of Ethereum and Gerald Cotten of QuadrigaCX (before he was reported dead) and hangs out in North Korea with Virgil Griffith, the man later arrested for allegedly teaching blockchain to the totalitarian state."

Ethan and I talked about his trip to North Korea that ultimately led to Virgil Griffith's recent guilty plea to "to conspiring to violating U.S. law by traveling to North Korea to give a presentation on how to use blockchain technology to launder money and evade sanctions."

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. Millennial Gold
2. Money Is a Collective Delusion