Uncovering Ethereum’s Founding

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[00:02:11] - [First question] - When she knew she wanted to become a journalist

[00:04:06] - Stepping into crypto seven years ago and what pulled her into it

[00:06:23] - Forbes’ thoughts on her covering crypto and going full-time

[00:07:39] - Her TedX 2018 presentation and how her predictions held up today 

[00:10:39] - Doing 200 interviews over 2 years to write Cryptopians

[00:12:33] - Balancing how wild the story felt with factual evidence-based reporting

[00:15:39] - What it was like to try and gather information in the crypto space

[00:17:33] - Who she most relied on to tell the story and who she wishes she could have spoken with while writing it

[00:20:25] - Idealists, capitalists and technologists shaping the messy foundation of Ethereum

[00:22:19] - How Vitalik maintained his dominance and influence over Ethereum

[00:23:54] - Thoughts on how a single figure can have so much power over an ecosystem

[00:25:17] - The battle between the Nonprofit and For-Profit status of blockchains

[00:28:16] - What made it so difficult to get involved in crypto in the early days

[00:29:11] - The first DAO coming together and within a few weeks getting hacked

[00:31:22] - Going from journalist to detective and trying to find out who the hacker was

[00:38:47] - How nervous she was about someone else breaking the story first

[00:42:08] - Big takeaways from illegal activity being traceable on public blockchains

[00:45:28] - Why she was able to find the DAO hacker before the government did

[00:46:21] - Whether or not there will be a movie made out of Cryptopians

[00:46:47] - What she’s most excited to see built in the next six months and six years