Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.

Aaron van Wirdum is the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. Finn Brunton is the author of “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists Utopians and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.” In this episode they tackle the history of digital currency. Topics include: the motivations behind the earliest attempts to create digital currencies and who was behind those attempts the Extropian philosophy and how digital currency was born out of it how the cypherpunks came together and eve

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