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VICE NEWS' MOTHERBOARD ANNOUNCES NEW SERIES "CRYPTOLAND" SERVING AS THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE CRYPTOCURRENCY WORLD
THE SERIES PROVIDES IN-DEPTH REPORTING ON ALL THINGS
CRYPTOCURRENCY WITH HOST EDWARD ONGWESO JR.
BROOKLYN, NY (MARCH 8, 2022) - Today, VICE News' technology and science reporting
multiplatform Motherboard announced "Cryptoland", a new weekly series hosted by VICE
News Tonight's Krishna Andavolu. Cryptoland will serve as a guide to the cryptocurrency space,
with comprehensive reporting that will interest people who are deep in the crypto space, but
remain digestible and accessible to crypto newcomers.
The series covers everything from the billionaire early investors of Bitcoin to Bitcoin mines and
climate change as well as ransomware and Liberland, a libertarian micronation where a new
society built around cryptocurrency exists. The first episode will include field segments from
around the world highlighting a particular narrative in the crypto space and will ultimately finish
with a studio discussion between Andavolu, Motherboard staff, and innovators in the
cryptocurrency space.
Motherboard has been covering Bitcoin and cryptocurrency for a since its inception, starting
from the moment Satoshi Nakamoto's original white paper began getting attention and Bitcoin's
beginnings as a tool used primarily to buy drugs on the darkweb, through the rise and fall of the
Silk Road, to the original cryptocurrency boom-and-bust cycle, and through its current
resurgence. Motherboard was at the Bitcoin foundation's first ever conference in 2013 and will
unearth never-before-seen footage of this event in Cryptoland.
Having followed alt coins, meme coins, shitcoins, the blockchain, scams, hacks, schemes,
regulations, environmental impacts, and sob stories about people losing their wallets,
Motherboard is uniquely well positioned to tackle the ins and out of cryptocurrency for novices
and experts alike. Cryptoland is one of the first comprehensive series to go into the field and
show how cryptocurrency is not just impacting culture, finance, and politics, but also the broader
infrastructure and design of our world. Cryptoland is the explainer you've been wanting and the
deep-dive you need.
A collaboration between VICE News and Motherboard, the series features VICE News reporters
Krishna Andavolu, Melissa Chan, Alice Hines, and Matthew Cassell, as well as Motherboard
reporters Samantha Cole, Edward Ongweso Jr., Joseph Cox, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai,
Jordan Pearson, Janus Rose, Audrey Carleton, and Maxwell Strachan.
The announcement of Cryptoland underscores Motherboard's pursuit to produce important
storytelling that aims to uncover the tech and science stories that define what's coming next.
You can watch Cryptoland on Motherboard's YouTube starting March 10, 2022.
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ABOUT MOTHERBOARD:
Motherboard is VICE Media's guide to the future, featuring multiplatform longform and shortform
reporting on technology and science. Its award-winning reporting focuses on hacking, labor,
cryptocurrency, open-source technology, internet culture, and how technology is wielded to
make a better and/or worse shared future for us all.
ABOUT VICE NEWS
VICE News produces hundreds of hours of award-winning original news programming every
year. Built on world-class reporting by a new generation of global correspondents, VICE News'
immersive style delivers groundbreaking reportage and redefines news and current affairs
programming for youth audiences around the world. VICE News produces content for
prestigious media partners including A+E Networks, Showtime, Spotify, iHeartMedia, and Hulu.
VICE News' international and domestic reporting is featured across VICE's digital, television and
social platforms.
ABOUT VICE MEDIA GROUP
VICE Media Group is a global multi-platform media company. Launched in 1994, VICE has
offices across 25 countries across the globe with a focus on five key businesses: VICE.com, an
award-winning international network of digital content; VICE STUDIOS, a feature film and
television production studio; VICE TV, an Emmy-winning international television network; a
Peabody award-winning NEWS division with the most Emmy-awarded nightly news broadcast;
and VIRTUE, a global, full-service creative agency. VICE Media Group's portfolio includes
Refinery29, the leading global media and entertainment company focused on women; PULSE
Films, a London-based next-generation production studio with outposts in Los Angeles, New
York, Paris and Berlin; and i-D, a global digital and bimonthly magazine defining fashion and
contemporary culture and design.
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