245. Matthew Leising. Demystifying Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs and Web 3.0.
Matthew Leising
December 22, 2022
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Today we’re speaking with Matthew Leising a book author and reporter who has been covering crypto since 2015. Last year founded DeCential to highlight the stories of the people creating the new blockchain fueled internet and financial system.
Our conversation explores blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs and Web 3.0.
Topics include:
Why blockchain is important.
Why many blockchains take a tremendous amount of energy to run and why ‘proof of stake’ could change this.
Why NFTs have value.
Why there’s scarcity of digital real estate in Web 3.0.
Click here to buy Matthew’s book, Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
Or here for access to purchase a special edition.
Matthew Leising was one of the first mainstream journalists to understand the implications of blockchain technology for finance, culture and industry in general when he began covering it for Bloomberg News in 2015. He co-founded DeCential Media in 2021 to focus exclusively on telling the stories of the founders, builders and visionaries who are creating a new decentralized economy and Internet experience.
His expertise lies in Ethereum, where his sources include the people who invented and then built the world’s most used blockchain. His 2020 book Out of the Ether is the definitive history of how the Ethereum blockchain was created.
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