Anna Baydakova – Ben Schiller

“If DeFi is going to work without being subject to the rules of the old systems, then there has to be some sort of accountability. Even in systems where there’s anonymity,” Danny Nelson says. Danny Nelson breaks down his recent investigative story, “Master of Anons: How a Crypto Developer Faked a DeFi Ecosystem,” with

“It’s about labels, it’s about people having fun fighting each other… Nothing regarding technology is at stake here,” says host Anna Baydakova of the bitcoin maximalism debate. “Opinionated” hosts Ben Schiller and Anna Baydakova discuss the long-running and fundamental debate at the center of crypto subculture that pit

This week on “Opinionated,” we sit down with David Z. Morris, CoinDesk’s chief insights columnist.  DZM gives us the highlights and lowlights from 2021, and looks ahead to 2022.  His highlight? El Salvador.  “For me, the bitcoin policy in El Salvador was the landmark moment of the year,” he says.  El Salvador has been

This week, “Opinionated” co-hosts Ben Schiller, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking to Aaron Lammer, author of a podcast series about the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. The QuadrigaCX saga, first broken by our colleague Nik De and still not finished, could