Laura is the founder of Unchained, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022). Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had 30 million downloads and views. Shin has been spoke about crypto at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, and the Senate Blockchain Caucus and been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, CBS Reports, NPR’s All Things Considered and numerous other publications. She holds more than $1,000 each of bitcoin, ether and sol.