War and Crypto in Ukraine

The courage of Ukraine amid the situation and the aid that is coming, feat. Rev Miller.

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This week, “Opinionated” hosts Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson are talking to Rev Miller, co-founder of Unchain, a decentralized fundraising crypto for humanitarian needs in besieged Ukraine.

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The situation in Ukraine is getting more and more bleak, but people are bracing to fight on, and the crypto community is ramping up its own arsenal, too. Over the past week, multiple crypto fundraising efforts have been launched in Ukraine by both the government and various activists, including the Russian art collective Pussy Riot.

Unchain is a fund that unites multiple crypto projects in an attempt to raise funds in a decentralized and transparent way that the blockchain technology can offer. Each donation wallet will be configured as a multisig, so that Unchain’s team of key holders, distributed across Ukraine and other countries, can have access to funds at all times.

Listen to Anna and Danny talk to Rev about how the Ukrainians are holding up, what are the plans of Unchain and how things are going with the crypto fundraising.

Check out the CoinDesk story about Unchain: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/03/01/absolutely-surreal-inside-a-fund-raising-millions-in-crypto-for-besieged-ukraine/

This episode was produced, announced and edited by Michele Musso. Our theme song is by Elision.

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Dan Ilett

Dan Ilett writes on tech, money and energy. He advises business on digital strategy and technology messaging for large deals. He is founder of Erbut - an advisory company - and Greenbang - a smart technology research company.

Anna Baydakova

Anna writes about blockchain projects and regulation with a special focus on Eastern Europe and Russia. She is especially excited about stories on privacy, cybercrime, sanctions policies and censorship resistance of decentralized technologies.
She graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University and the Higher School of Economics in Russia and got her Master's degree at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.
She joined CoinDesk after years of writing for various Russian media, including the leading political outlet Novaya Gazeta.
Anna owns BTC and an NFT of sentimental value.

Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

Danny Bradbury

Danny Bradbury has been a professional writer since 1989, and has worked freelance since 1994. He covers technology for publications such as the Guardian.

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