Laura Shin

Company: Unchained

Area of Expertise: Cryptocurrencies

Website: https://www.unchained.com

Books: “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022).

Biography:

Laura Shin is founder and CEO of Unchained. She also hosts the Unchained podcast and is the 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 spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Blockchain Caucus and the Oslo Freedom Forum.