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Exclusive: Crypto’s Biggest Whodunnit: Who Was Behind the 2016 DAO Attack on Ethereum? - Ep.322 Feb 22, 2022

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While researching for my book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, I found evidence that I believe resolves the biggest whodunnit in crypto: who hacked The DAO? This podcast is coming out in conjunction with an article in Forbes revealing the prime suspect’s identity.

Part 1: Who Attacked the DAO? Here’s the Evidence

To document the process of finding the alleged attacker, I wrote an article for Forbes, with which I opened the podcast. In it, I reveal

who, evidence indicates, attacked the DAO
how my sources and I uncovered this person’s identity
how a previously undisclosed technical capability by Chainalysis helped my sources and I identify the alleged hacker

Part 2: Contextualizing the DAO Attack

Forbes’s Steven Ehrlich comes onto the pod to interview me about finding the DAO attacker. Topics

what is The DAO, and why is it important?
who are the key players in The DAO’s story
how the attacker pulled off the hack
what legal questions surrounded the hack
why finding the attacker is important
the legal implications of identifying the attacker
what Laura’s interactions have been with the suspect
what the future of DAOs may hold

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Episode Links

Laura Shin

https://twitter.com/laurashin

The Cryptopians

Steven Ehrlich

The DAO Hack

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Congressman Ro Khanna: How to Get More Democrats into Web3 - Ep.321 Feb 18, 2022

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Congressman Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, discusses crypto and decentralization, his new book, Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us, and how to regulate the crypto industry. Show highlights:

what Silicon Valley had to do with Congressman Khanna’s journey down the crypto rabbit hole
why Congressman Khanna is so passionate about decentralization
why Congressman Khanna thinks crypto could bring tech jobs across the country and world (rather than staying in hubs like Silicon Valley)
why Congressman Khanna thinks a new regulatory regime is necessary for crypto assets, like stablecoins
what Congressman Khanna would like vocal crypto opponents like Congressman Brad Sherman or Senator Elizabeth Warren to know about the crypto space
Congressman Khanna explains the difference between determining if an asset is a security and regulating an asset
what Congressman Khanna is doing to bring predictability to crypto regulation
how regulators could incentivize Bitcoin miners to use less energy
what Congressman Khanna thinks about know-your-customer/anti-money-laundering mechanisms in the DeFi world
how Congressman Khanna believes crypto taxes should be treated
what actions Congressman Khanna recommends for bringing more Democrats to the crypto side
whether Congressman Khanna thinks crypto is a bipartisan issue

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Miscellaneous

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Congressman Brad Sherman thinks crypto hurts people of color: https://decrypt.co/92776/crypto-race-and-democrats-brad-sherman
President’s Working Group report on stablecoins: https://www.scribd.com/document/536522482/PWG-Stablecoin-Report
Congressman Khanna’s attempt to fix the infrastructure bill: https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/khanna-mchenry-lead-bipartisan-legislative-fix-new-digital-asset-reporting

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Your 2021 Crypto Taxes: How to Handle NFTs, DAOs, Airdrops and More - Ep.320 Feb 15, 2022

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Two crypto tax experts, Shehan Chandrasekera, certified public accountant and head of strategy, Tax, at Cointracker, and John Cardone, senior director of Washington National Tax at RSM US LLP, explain everything crypto traders need to understand when filing taxes for 2021. Show topics:

-the five types of transactions that constitute a taxable crypto event -how NFT taxes should be reported -why the sale of collectibles (NFTs) is taxed differently than the sale of crypto property (tokens) -what type of forms you might receive from crypto exchanges and why this information is usually incomplete -why the crypto provision in the infrastructure bill most likely won’t affect retail traders -why John wants a digital asset-specific 1099 form -how staking income will be taxed this year (and why this might change soon) -how to report taxes for… airdrops like ENS and SOS income earned via a play-to-earn game like Axie Infinity the sale of virtual land wrapping Bitcoin onto Ethereum rewards received via a crypto credit card -how to save money on taxes going forward -how Shehan and John think crypto taxes will evolve -why the IRS listed a job posting for someone who could exploit crypto wallets

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Episode Links

John Cardone

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-cardone-436412b1/

Shehan Chandrasekera

https://twitter.com/TheCryptoCPA

Helpful Links

Shehan’s tax guide: https://www.forbes.com/sites/shehanchandrasekera/2022/01/24/quick-guide-to-filing-your-2021-cryptocurrency--nft-taxes/?sh=d5c00f765f9d Staking rewards case: https://twitter.com/TheCryptoCPA/status/1489268205877035016 US Gov. job posting: https://sam.gov/opp/799a1650bd5349b6af4f646842999187/view

2022 Crypto Tax Guides

CoinTracker: https://www.cointracker.io/blog/crypto-tax-guide CryptoTrader.Tax: https://cryptotrader.tax/blog/the-traders-guide-to-cryptocurrency-taxes Koinly: https://koinly.io/cryptocurrency-taxes/ ZenLedger: https://www.zenledger.io/guides/crypto-tax-us

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How Law Enforcement Tracked Down $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin - Ep.319 Feb 11, 2022

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On Tuesday, the US government seized $3.6 billion in bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex hack and arrested two individuals, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, on charges of money laundering. Tom Robinson, cofounder and chief scientist at the blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, breaks down how law enforcement was able to seize the BTC, what techniques the alleged money launderers used to avoid capture, and who could have pulled off the initial hack. Show highlights:

background on the 2016 Bitfinex hack who was arrested this week and why how the US government gained access to the private keys in Lichtenstein’s and Morgan’s control why AlphaBay, a now-defunct darknet website, was crucial to law enforcement’s effort to track down the stolen Bitfinex funds what money laundering techniques were used to cash out the stolen Bitfinex funds before this week’s arrests whether, as blockchain analytics technology advances, it will always catch up to be able to trace the movements of crypto as its laundered why using Monero, a privacy coin, to cash out stolen funds is a red flag why Tom does not think the two individuals arrested this week for money laundering the stolen Bitfinex funds were the original hackers

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Episode Links

Tom Robinson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomarobinson?originalSubdomain=uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomrobin

Information on the Bitfinex hack + arrest:

DOJ Information: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1470211/download Elliptic Coverage: https://www.elliptic.co/blog/elliptic-analysis-new-york-husband-and-wife-arrested-for-laundering-5-billion-in-bitcoin-stolen-from-bitfinex-in-2016 Unchained Coverage: https://unchainedpodcast.com/feds-seize-3-6-billion-in-btc-connected-to-bitfinex-hack/ CoinDesk coverage https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/08/us-officials-seize-bitcoin-from-2016-bitfinex-hack/ Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/92529/bitfinex-billion-bitcoin-who-keeps-it The Defiant: https://thedefiant.io/bitfinex-leo-surge/ Bitfinex statement: https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/766

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The Chopping Block: SBF on a Crazy Week of Bitfinex, Wormhole and ENS Drama - Ep.318 Feb 09, 2022

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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. On this week’s episode, Sam Bankman-Friend (SBF), CEO and founder of FTX, also dropped by. Show topics:

Robert and SBF’s takeaways from previous experiences speaking to regulators
what happened during the Wormhole hack and why building decentralized systems is difficult
whether AssangeDAO is a good use of money and how it showcases the power of DAOs + NFTs
why GameStop dumping IMX tokens might have been Immutable X’s fault
ENS drama, cancel culture, and whether or not the guys would have fired Brantly Millegan if it had been their company making the decision
how the US was able to recover funds from the Bitfinex hack (and how Tarun knows one of the individuals arrested for allegedly using the stolen BTC via money laundering)
Shape rotators versus wordcels: what is the meme, how does SBF identify, and Arthur Hayes?

Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
- https://twitter.com/hosseeb
Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital
- https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt
Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
- https://twitter.com/tarunchitra
Robert Leshner, founder of Compound
- https://twitter.com/rleshner

Guest

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX
- https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda

Links

Wormhole hack
- https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/3/22916111/wormhole-hack-github-error-325-million-theft-ethereum-solana
AssangeDAO raises ~$41M on Juicebox, larger than ConstitutionDAO
- https://juicebox.money/#/p/assangedao
ENS drama
- https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/02/07/ethereum-name-service-removes-brantly-millegan-as-steward-over-2016-tweet/
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-big-4-firm-added-btc-and-eth-to-its-balance-sheet/
Gamestop and ImmutableX
- https://twitter.com/polarply/status/1489572631649083394
- https://unchainedpodcast.com/another-gamestop-pump-and-dump/
Bitfinex Hack
Wordcels vs. Shape Rotators
- https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1489998900438077441

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Will Every Piece of Media Enter the Internet as an NFT? Variant Fund Says Yes - Ep.317 Feb 08, 2022

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Variant Fund is a venture capital firm that describes itself as “a first-check crypto fund investing in the ownership economy.” Jesse Walden and Li Jin, co-founders and general partners at Variant, join Unchained to discuss the ownership economy, issues with web2 and web3, NFTs, the future of work, and more. Highlights:

where Li and Jesse met and how their backgrounds as investors + founders led them to the crypto space
how Li’s investing niche, which she describes as the passion economy, ended up intersecting with crypto
why Li believes that web3 platforms will be better for creators than the current web2 ecosystem
why Jesse was so inspired by Bitcoin after working in the music industry for so many years
why Jesse believes that NFTs are the “port of entry” for the mainstream adoption of crypto
what other use-cases exist for NFTs outside of the JPEG or PNG meme (and why Jesse is so excited about music NFTs)
why Li believes that web3 tools can help fix the issues inherent to the “gig economy”
Li and Jesse respond to criticisms of web3 coming from Jack Dorsey and Moxie Marlinspike
how Variant Fund thinks about investing in crypto projects
what token allocation Variant Fund targets when investing in crypto projects
why mainstream platforms are experiencing backlash for integrating with NFTs and crypto
what trends in NFTs, DAOs, and the ownership economy Jesse and Li think will pop in 2022

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Li Jin

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ljin18
Substack: https://li.substack.com/
Li Jin on the creator economy
- The future of the creator economy
  - https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1C3fBfPgWxf-zqezGlPFr7VXIetlHlnaZ/view
  - https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1454096370281943041
- What the creator economy is doing wrong
  - https://li.substack.com/p/legitimacy-lost
- How to fix the “gig” style economy for creators
  - https://li.substack.com/p/the-creator-economy-is-in-crisis
- How the creator economy could power universal basic income
  - https://li.substack.com/p/the-case-for-universal-creative-income
- What labor should look like in Web3
  - https://li.substack.com/p/a-labor-movement-for-the-platform
- Building the middle class of the creator economy
  - https://li.substack.com/p/building-the-middle-class-of-the
Other
- Web3 is the “golden age” of content
  - https://every.mirror.xyz/y_WLA-Tk3VF5uPqHi-glDLVVfHxLUbjXakRI7SMISas
- Transitioning to Web3 from a non-tech perspective
  - https://twitter.com/ljin18/status/1479111931977867275

Jesse Walden

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessewldn
Website (no blogs since 2020): https://jessewalden.com/
Random Tweets
- DAOs
  - https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1459014962207244290
  - https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1470406564582498315
- NFTs
  - https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1473641606951669767
- Music NFTs x Sound XYZ
  - https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1471148257892044812
- Commoditizing a compliment
  - https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1465713306363117578
Writing
- NFTs make the internet ownable
  - https://variant.mirror.xyz/T8kdtZRIgy_srXB5B06L8vBqFHYlEBcv6ae2zR6Y_eo
- Product vs. Protocol
  - https://variant.fund/writing/balance-product-protocol-web3
- Leadership in the ownership economy
  - https://variant.fund/writing/leadership-in-the-ownership-economyscaling-decision
- How DeFi crosses the chasm
  - https://variant.fund/writing/how-does-defi-cross-the-chasm
- Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn’t is Who Benefits
  - https://variant.fund/writing/cryptos-business-model-is-familiar.-what-isnt-is
- Narrative Economics
  - https://variant.fund/writing/narrative-economics
- Progressive decentralization
  - https://variant.fund/writing/progressive-decentralization-a-playbook-for-building
- Layers of blockchain computing
  - https://variant.fund/writing/layers-not-eras-of-blockchain-computing

Variant Fund

Variant Fund Twitter
- https://twitter.com/variantfund
Variant Fund website
- https://variant.fund/
Writing:
- https://variant.fund/writing
Mirror Blog (Feb 2021 article on NFTs)
- https://variant.mirror.xyz/
Variant Fund + Atelier joining forces

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Are Democrats Against Crypto? These Two Congressional Candidates Say No - Ep.316 Feb 04, 2022

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Shrina Kurani, a Democrat running for a House seat in California, and Morgan Harper, a Democratic candidate running to represent Ohio in the US Senate, explain why they are running pro-crypto campaigns. They discuss how crypto will affect the 2022 midterms, justify being both pro-crypto and pro-environment, and talk about the importance of educating regulators about Web3. On this episode of Unchained, they highlight:

how Morgan’s work at the American Economic Liberties Project and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau led her to run for Senate on a pro-crypto platform
why Shrina chose to mint NFTs on Solana to help fundraise for her campaign
what issues Morgan and Shrina have with the current financial system (and how they believe crypto could help solve such issues)
why both Shrina and Morgan stress that education is the key to making effective crypto policy in the US
what message Shrina and Morgan want to send to fellow Democrats about the crypto industry
why Morgan believes that single-issue voting for crypto candidates could be dangerous

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Campaign Website: https://morganharper.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mh4oh

Shrina Kurani

Campaign Website: https://www.shrinakurani.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shrinakurani

Additional Reading

Information on Shrina’s NFT drop
- https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/16/congressional-candidate-kurani-dropping-2022-solana-nfts-as-part-of-campaign/
Why Shrina is advocating for web3
- https://medium.com/@shrinakuraniforcongress/im-running-for-congress-here-s-why-i-m-advocating-for-web3-50409ffdd11
Morgan’s thoughts on web3 versus traditional finance
- https://twitter.com/mh4oh/status/1463219384776806402?s=21
9 pro-crypto congressional candidates
- https://laurashin.bulletin.com/want-to-support-a-pro-crypto-congressional-candidate-check-out-these-9

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How NFT DAOs Could Shape the Next Blockbuster, Fund Poetry and Change VC - Ep.315 Feb 01, 2022

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Dapper Collectives CEO and Friends With Benefits founder Trevor McFedries joins Unchained to discuss social tokens, NFTs, the creator economy, $FWB, VC snacks, DAOs, Cooper Turley, and more. Show highlights:

Trevor’s past, which includes a top 10 album, working at Spotify, founding Brud, creating Lil Miquela, and, of course, falling down the crypto rabbit hole
what Trevor’s vision for Dapper Collectives is
what type of activities DAOs will facilitate in the future
why Trevor is so excited to be working with Dapper Labs and Flow
what Friends With Benefits is and how the $FWB token works
what sort of tokens make up the Friends With Benefits treasury
why venture capitalists who want to be involved with Friends With Benefits need to have a good snack game
why Trevor is not worried about $FWB becoming a security
what plans Friends With Benefits has in store for 2022
Trevor’s response to Friends With Benefits suspending co-founder Cooper Turley regarding 10-year old racist and homophobic tweets
what can be done to onboard a more diverse demographic to crypto
how Trevor defines the passion/creator economy
what Trevor is looking forward to in 2022 regarding NFTs, DAOs, and social tokens

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Episode Links

Trevor Mcfedries

Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatdotcd
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-mcfedries-0a5285a8/

Work

CEO - Dapper Collectives
- Decrypt write-up: https://decrypt.co/82517/dapper-labs-nfts-daos-collectives-brud
- Announcement: https://medium.com/dapperlabs/the-future-of-x-is-decentralized-bb3245faf1b1
Founder → Brud
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/makebrud
- Website: https://www.brud.fyi/
- Lil Miquela: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/
- Acquisition by Dapper Labs: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/nft-startup-dapper-labs-acquires-virtual-influencer-startup-brud/
- AI Influencers: https://mailchimp.com/courier/article/ai-influencers/

Friends With Benefits

Basics
- FWB website: https://www.fwb.help/
- Mirror: https://fwb.mirror.xyz/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/fwbtweets
- FWB Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/token/0x35bd01fc9d6d5d81ca9e055db88dc49aa2c699a8
- CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/friends-with-benefits-pro/

Background Reads
- Trevor’s role: https://consensys.net/blog/codefi/friends-with-benefits-a-new-model-for-social-tokens-on-ethereum/
- a16z investment: https://a16z.com/2021/10/27/investing-in-friends-with-benefits-a-dao/
- FWB deep dive: https://ra.co/features/3914
- Intelligencer write up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/whats-a-dao-why-your-group-chat-could-be-worth-millions.html
- Coindesk write up: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/the-social-token-network-rally-friends-with-benefits-and-the-future-of-branding/

Cooper Turley removed from DAO
- https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/15/crypto-influencer-cooper-turley-removed-from-fwb-over-2013-bigoted-tweets/
- - Backlash to removal:

https://twitter.com/mewn21/status/1482202603563798530

WHALE treasury tokens
- https://snapshot.org/#/friendswithbenefits.eth/proposal/QmWnifY3KD5ECJNtQ23m9GHt2oQ1McA3T4DEEpFarPy9jW

Additional Links

Sound.xyz
- https://www.sound.xyz/
Catalog
- https://beta.catalog.works/
Daily Ape on DAOs: https://thedailyape.notion.site/DAOs-95332c7ab79c49dc89f9a72c628dfeb8
Social Tokens:
- Cooper Turley:
- - https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/DYSs-mhdJi1uXZTaiyJfwiFZYAF9kRK6yBsAplk6A68

Linda Xie:
- https://linda.mirror.xyz/4PDBWBMpFFPVEsP5EGgg5to2AyEpEHEXasq_K0b-yYk
Forefront: https://forefront.market/learn/social-tokens

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