Most Influential: Katie Haun

Most Influential: Katie Haun
After the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, mainstream commentators wagged their fingers at bitcoin. Fortunately for the cryptocurrency community, it had a ready and credible defender in former prosecutor Katie Haun.The Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) partner appeared as a voice of reason in the pages of The New York Times, explaining that crypto is helpful in ransomware investigations: It allowed law enforcement to retrieve the money extorted by Colonial Pipeline’s attackers unusually fast.This article is part of CoinDesk’s “Most Influential 2021″ series. You can bid on the NFT of Katie Haun by Sasha Katz at SuperRare here. 20% of the sale will…