Stories From the Blockchain-Based Web3 World

Today we have Matthew Leising. He's the co-founder of decentral, it's a media company, committed to telling the stories of the founders, builders and visionaries who are creating a decentralized economy and Internet experience. It should be extremely interesting to talk to Matt.

He's been a reporter for 17 years, he worked for Bloomberg News. And he's been covering crypto and all that stuff since 2015 as one of the first mainstream journalists to understand what the breakthrough of blockchain technology could mean for finance, culture and industry in general. Matt has recently released a special edition of his book, Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All. Out of the Ether has been optioned and is in the process of being turned into a documentary series.

 

In this episode we’re discussing…

 

  •        [1:31] How did he get started in the industry?

 

 

  •        [3:25] Over-the-counter derivatives and bitcoin

 

 

  •        [6:24] Decentralizing the financial industry

 

 

  •        [11:43] The power of crypto and the Fx

 

 

  •        [13:49] Do you need an exchange to buy crypto?

 

 

  •        [15:53] Regulations and regulations

 

 

  •        [21:51] What is Web3?

 

 

  •        [24:15] How did the idea of a decentralized autonomous organization come about?

 

 

  •        [26:34] Etherium’s black eye

 

 

  •        [27:43] Where can people get your book, if they’re interested?

 

 

Resources from Matt

 

DeCential | LinkedIn | Twitter | DeCential Twitter

ABOUT MATT LEISING

Matthew Leising has been a reporter since 2001, and for 17 years worked for Bloomberg News. He began covering crypto in 2015 as one of the first mainstream journalists to understand what the breakthrough of blockchain technology could mean for finance, culture and industry in general. His expertise lies in the Ethereum blockchain world, where he has immersed himself in stories of the people who invented and then built the world’s most-used blockchain. He published the definitive history of Ethereum in 2020, Out of the Ether. The book has been optioned and is in the process of being made into a documentary series. Out of his book came DeCential, a media company he co-founded in 2021 that’s dedicated to telling the stories of the founders, builders and visionaries who are creating a new decentralized economy and Internet experience.

Matt has written extensively on the intersection of Wall Street and decentralized finance and how new peer-to-peer systems can change the way the current Internet works. He’s one of the foremost experts on the DAO, the early and ill- fated defi experiment in Ethereum that was hacked to the tune of $55 million in 2016. This all culminated in his 2020 book Out of the Ether, the Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That Almost Destroyed It All.

Nichole Stohler