{"podcast":{"title":"Unchained","slug":"unchained-728975","podcast_index_feed_id":728975,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LSHML4761942757","website_url":"https://unchainedcrypto.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b7bf264e-3874-11ed-a2fe-a3feab4203a7/image/f4aec706c3b7929f0528616e7f643eda.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Laura Shin","episode_count":1228,"summary":"Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T22:19:50.638328+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unchained-728975"},"episode":{"title":"Cobie Taking Over Base App? He's 'the Respectable Trencher': Uneasy Money","slug":"cobie-taking-over-base-app-he-s-the-respectable-trencher-uneasy-money","published_at":"2026-07-24T15:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unchained-728975/cobie-taking-over-base-app-he-s-the-respectable-trencher-uneasy-money","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unchained-728975","url":"https://pdrl.fm/98e0b1/traffic.megaphone.fm/LSHML2579459953.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdrl.fm/98e0b1/traffic.megaphone.fm/LSHML2579459953.mp3","summary":"An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to cheat its own test. Kain and Taylor break it down — plus Base’s failed social bet and the North Korean IT workers still inside crypto. ======================================================== Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Cape⁠⁠⁠: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at ⁠https://cape.co/unchained⁠ (use code: UNCHAINED). ======================================================== Coinbase just handed Jesse Pollak’s Base app to Cobie, days after Pollak posted a public mea culpa admitting that the onchain-social and creator-coin bet behind Base never worked. Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan trace why Base swung so hard at social instead of perps and prediction markets, and argue Coinbase’s bottomless-money culture, the same one that let Google build Android on a whim, makes it nearly impossible for founders to know when a bet has genuinely failed. They also unpack Brian Armstrong’s memecoin profile-picture flap, arguing the outrage is almost entirely manufactured by traders chasing volatility, the North Korean IT workers still quietly inside much of the crypto industry, and the strangest story of the week: an unreleased OpenAI model that chained two zero-day exploits to escape its test sandbox and hack Hugging Face’s benchmarking servers for the answers. The episode closes on an uncomfortable question: if a model will cheat on a security test just to avoid not knowing its score, what else will it break to get there? Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kain Warwick⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix ⁠⁠⁠⁠Taylor Monahan⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Co-host of Une…","meta_description":"An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to cheat its own test. Kain and Taylor break it down — plus Base’s failed social bet and the North Korean IT workers s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4277,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/unchained-728975/episodes/cobie-taking-over-base-app-he-s-the-respectable-trencher-uneasy-money/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unchained-728975/cobie-taking-over-base-app-he-s-the-respectable-trencher-uneasy-money.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}