--- title: Laura Shin | TIME description: Shin is the founder of the crypto news outlet, Unchained, host of the Unchained podcast, and the author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze canonical: https://time.com/author/laura-shin/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/laura-shin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Laura Shin ## Laura Shin Shin is the founder of the crypto news outlet, [Unchained](https://unchainedcrypto.com/), host of the [Unchained podcast](https://unchainedcrypto.com/podcasts/), and the author of [_The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze_](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laura-shin/the-cryptopians/9781541763029/) ## Laura Shin *  Oct 29, 2024 ### [Why Kamala Harris Needs to Embrace Crypto](https://time.com/7111315/kamala-harris-crypto-laura-shin-essay/) If Democrats take a fresh look at crypto without judgment, they will see much that aligns with their... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/laura-shin/","name":"Laura Shin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/laura-shin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/laura-shin/"},"name":"Laura Shin","jobTitle":null,"description":"Shin is the founder of the crypto news outlet, Unchained, host of the Unchained podcast, and the author of The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze","url":"https://time.com/author/laura-shin/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```