Matthew Leising, a reporter at Bloomberg who began covering crypto in 2015, is out with a new book Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All. In this episode, he discusses:the catalyst that led to him writing his new book, which covers the early history of Ethereum and the DAO attack of 2016why he thought the story of the DAO hack was compelling enough to make a book, and how he went about reporting itthe surprising things he learned about Ethereum’s early days and Vitalikthe twists and turns during his quest to discover the identity of the DAO attackerwhy he thinks separate people were responsible for the two biggest DAO attackshis meeting in Tokyo with one of the prime suspects of a copycat DAO attackwhy he decided to end his story at the Ethereum hard fork and chose not to write about Ethereum Classic what he feels the long-term significance of the DAO and the hard fork has been for Ethereumwhy he thinks the lessons of the DAO are not being heeded todaywhat he thinks the next chapter of Ethereum will be and how it will unfoldthe differences he’s found as a journalist covering crypto as opposed to covering more traditional financeand how the book is about more than just the DAOThank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://www.crypto.comGods Unchained: https://playgu.co/unchainedpodEpisode links: Matthew Leising: https://twitter.com/mattleisingOut of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Out+of+the+Ether%3A+The+Amazing+Story+of+Ethereum+and+the+%2455+Million+Heist+that+Almost+Destroyed+It+All-p-9781119602934Matt's original Bloomberg article on the DAO attack, "The Ether Thief": https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-the-ether-thief/Excerpt in Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/a-trip-down-the-crypto-rabbit-hole-in-search-of-the-dao-hackerExcerpt in CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/55m-hack-ethereum-downDecrypt's interview with Matt about the book: https://decrypt.co/41952/book-sheds-new-light-on-ethereums-55-million-dao-hackLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices