Crypto Stories

- Season 1

(2022)

Vitalik Buterin talks about how he started his crypto journey and how he came up with the idea for Ethereum.

An anonymous cyber vigilante hunts down DeFi scammers responsible for a $25 million fraud.

The story of how the Silk Road introduced Gavin Wood to Bitcoin and how he wrote the first smart contracts for Ethereum.

In 2015, Shaban Shaame launched a token sale for the first-ever blockchain-based mobile game, Spells of Genesis. Shaban and his game seemed to have been forgotten, but five years later, his game is seeing an unprecedented renaissance.

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How crypto exchange founder Mikhail Chobanian and several Ukrainian crypto enthusiasts managed to help their country by asking for - and receiving - crypto donations from all around the world.

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"Want to go to a crypto conference in North Korea?" is not a commonly asked question, but it was asked to Canadian journalist Ethan Lou. This is the incredible story about how Lou flew to a crypto conference in North Korea but was unexpectedly asked to be a presenter - instead of being a spectator. Eight months later, one of the participants, Virgil Griffith, who worked with the Ethereum Foundation and was among the attendees Lou got to know, was arrested by the FBI for violating sanctions and illegally providing "highly technical information" to the North Korean ...

The story of how CryptoWendyO went through poverty, mental illness, the death of her father, and became a popular crypto blogger. Also, find out how her working as a nurse helped her better calculate her investment in crypto.

Two popular Italian podcasters decided to go to El Salvador and live there for one month, paying for everything only with Bitcoins.

This is the story of how Paco from India decided to drop everything in his life and leave home to travel around the world using only BTC. How does that happen?

Nowadays, kids teach their parents what Bitcoin is and how to use cryptocurrency. But this is not the case with Alex Tapscott. His father, Don, a business executive, and author, received millions of views with a TED lecture on what Bitcoin is. A few years ago, he invited his son to work together on a book about Bitcoin. Alex quit his high-paying job in order to do what the business world considered the height of insanity.

This is the inspiring story of Josipa Majic and her partners, who started building a crypto company during a bear market. Investors were horrified at the idea and told them bluntly, "no." Everyone was questioning her plans. And at the same time, Josipa and her partners began to run out of money. How did they eventually manage to raise $10 million?

Hailing from a village with no electricity and where the water needed to be pumped from a well, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao was in a milieu whose conditions were inconducive to starting the world's largest crypto exchange. But this is how he began. What qualities allowed him to create what others failed to do?

Analysis of Bitcoin's proof-of-work and the Lightning Network exposes the banking system as energy-hungry, demonstrating that Bitcoin is better for the planet. A research report published by Michel Khazzaka, an IT engineer, cryptographer, and consultant, calculates that Bitcoin payments are a "million times more efficient" than the legacy financial system. Plus, the banking sector "uses 56 times more energy than Bitcoin." The report compiles almost four years of research and suggests a new calculation for estimating Bitcoin's proof-of-work energy consumption.

In this episode, we animate a series of historic Cointelegraph interviews to resurrect John McAfee on the video screen. Experience the incredible details of how he, his wife and five dogs fled from American justice on a yacht and eventually found their way into crypto. This video is a tribute to a man who has always been at the forefront of technological progress.

This is the animated story of how Blockstream CEO Adam Back anticipated the creation of Bitcoin.

A Bitcoiner in London brings new meaning to the phrase "generational wealth." The Noodle family had always planned to have kids. Sadly, conceiving was a challenge. They struggled for a long time and sought medical advice. They realized that they might have to undergo fertility treatment. The costs behind IVF were pretty high. Most people either can't afford it or they go into debt to go ahead with the procedure. But Noodle decided to use their Bitcoin, which they bought when they got married. What happened next? Watch our new episode of Crypto Stories.

Twin brothers Aaron and Austin Arnold tell the story of Altcoin Daily, a YouTube channel that has surpassed 1 million subscribers in just four years. How did it happen?