Welcome to episode 61 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In less than two years in the space, Leigh Cuen has become a mainstay in cryptocurrency journalism, as well as a highly elite user of GIFs on Crypto-Twitter. It was interesting to learn more about this prolific writer's background, thoughts about cryptocurrency, and even some basics about the business of journalism.

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EPISODE LINKS

Leigh on Twitter
https://twitter.com/la__cuen

Leigh's Coindesk Articles
https://www.coindesk.com/author/lcuen

Poet takes revolution from Facebook to the world, by Leigh Cuen
https://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/poet_takes_revolution_from_facebook_to_the_world

A 'new poetry' emerges from Syria's civil war, by Leigh Cuenhttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/20139784442125773.html

How Fintech Plays Into The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Leigh Cuen
https://www.ibtimes.com/how-fintech-plays-israeli-palestinian-conflict-2592984

How Iranian Women Became the Queens of Online Shopping, by Leigh Cuen
https://www.racked.com/2017/5/10/15450318/iran-online-shopping-women-tech

Trump Lies About the Status of the Economy, by Leigh Cuen
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-lies-about-the-status-of-the-economy

Pete Rizzo
https://twitter.com/pete_rizzo_

Marc Hochstein
https://twitter.com/MarcHochstein

Zack Seward
https://twitter.com/zackseward

The Bitcoin Standard, by Saifedean Ammous
https://amzn.to/2EGjGV9

There’s No Crypto Winter in Argentina..., by Leigh Cuen
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-startups-in-argentina-inflation-bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Warrior Queen: Lightning’s Elizabeth Stark..., by Leigh Cuen
https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-most-influential-blockchain-2018-elizabeth-stark

KPI (key performance indicator)
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-popular-KPIs-for-the-online-media-industry

Mastering Bitcoin, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
https://bitcoinbook.info

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