Why America's New Cyber Privateers Can't Go After North Korea
Can the US fight AI-powered hackers and North Korea by deputizing its private sector? Two government veterans explain why the answer is yes...
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Unchained: Big Ideas From The Worlds Of Blockchain And Cryptocurrency
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, hos...
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The Chopping Block: Black October, Banks Blocking AI Agents, Hyperliquid's Blockchain-Not-Bitcoin Moment, and the Visa-Fireblocks Rumor
Welcome to The Chopping Block, where crypto insiders Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. Th...
PaperTrade Attracted $140M, Then Changed the Rules. Was It a Bait and Switch?
Traders tried to lose money fast to earn PAPER. Now the token may never be transferable, and one tracker shows staking revenue fell 93% in a...
Uneasy Money: Is the Internet Breaking Because Bots Never Get Lazy?
A certificate authority's private key was the number 4 for over a year. Kain, Taylor, and Austin on why the internet's trust schemes are cra...
How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography
Justin Drake says crypto should brace for AI breaking elliptic curves before Q-Day. Project Eleven's Alex Pruden and Conor Deegan weigh in o...
Ledger Wallets Were Drained of $100 Million. Is Self-Custody Still Safe?
A hidden implant read Ledger seed phrases off the screen and sent them out over an eSIM. Mark Karpelès and SEAL 911's Jonty discuss what tha...
Uneasy Money: Why Ledger's Supply Chain Became a Nearly $100M Target
A Ledger reseller's devices shipped with a hidden LTE modem inside. Taylor Monahan lays out how it passed the genuine check and why panickin...
The Chopping Block: The Ledger Hardware Implant, a Listening Device at OpenAI, Papertrade's 1000x House, and the Death of Technical Moats
The boys regroup after TOKEN2049. Ledgers sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Malaysia, came with an LTE implant that read s...
Why Crypto Buybacks Are 'the Wrong Way to Allocate Capital'
ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente says quantum fears and the Ledger hack are speeding up the death of self-custody, that Ethereum has to pick a l...
How NEAR Intents Identified a Suspect and Got Its Stolen Funds Back
A bridging bug cost NEAR Intents $3.8 million. Alex Shevchenko reveals how a coded tweet and a Signal invite encrypted with the attacker's k...
The Chopping Block: Live at TOKEN2049 feat. Balaji Srinivasan & Arthur Hayes on Kazakhstan, Crypto Bunker Mode, and the L2 Shutdowns
Live from TOKEN2049 in Singapore, Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun sit down with Balaji Srinivasan and Arthur Hayes. Welcome to The Chopping Block, wh...
How OpenAI's Math Dump Has Crypto Rethinking Its Cryptography: Uneasy Money
Justin Drake told holders not to panic. Ben DiFrancesco says if AI weakens elliptic curves, the clock is how fast Chinese models catch up. =...
THORChain Says It Can't Block North Korean Laundering. Is That True?
In this spicypost-Bitget hack debate, THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford says the protocol can't block laundering. Taylor Monahan points to...
Paid Partnership: How Nexo Wants You To Build Wealth Using Crypto
SPONSORED CONTENT: This video is a paid partnership with Nexo. It was produced in collaboration with Nexo and is separate from Unchained's e...
The Chopping Block: Bitget's 387 Million Dollar Hack, Kalshi's Cooked Perps Volume, and Agentic Bank Runs
North Korea takes $387 million from Bitget and moves it through THORChain while NEAR's Shield freezes what it can, a Consensys validator hac...
Uneasy Money: The $388M Bitget Hack Started With a Security Vendor
Taylor Monahan ties the Bitget hack to North Korea and the crew asks why THORChain still avoids the scrutiny Tornado Cash got. =============...
Is Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP Coin a Scam? He Says the Wallets Prove It Isn't
Hunter Biden walks through the $LAPTOP launch, when thin liquidity sent the token to a $317 billion market cap in a minute, and why he says...
DEX in the City: The Hosts Sign Off With Their Best Advice for Women in Crypto
In their final episode on Unchained, Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Jessi Brooks, and Vy Le share the advice they give women entering crypto. Pl...
How Bitget Is Chasing $388 Million in Stolen Funds After a Zero-Day Hack
Bitget lost $388 million — and days later, CEO Gracy Chen says scammers posing as a major investment team targeted her. ====================...
Why the Crypto Market Cap Could Reach $50 Trillion This Cycle
Ran Neuner argues crypto has finally found product-market fit, and a BlackRock report on AI agents and blockchain rails convinced him the th...