
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos.
Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full movie into a tiny smart card chip. Top executives and investors witnessed his demos and became true believers, ready to bankroll this company into the stratosphere.
But was it all an elaborate illusion?
Join me as I unravel the perplexing story of Jan Sloot, the eccentric Dutch TV repairman who dazzled the tech world with his compression claims.
Discover the shady details and follow the bizarre twists and turns, as we try to separate fact from fiction in the puzzling case of the Sloot Digital Coding System.
By Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer4.9
188188 ratings
Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos.
Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full movie into a tiny smart card chip. Top executives and investors witnessed his demos and became true believers, ready to bankroll this company into the stratosphere.
But was it all an elaborate illusion?
Join me as I unravel the perplexing story of Jan Sloot, the eccentric Dutch TV repairman who dazzled the tech world with his compression claims.
Discover the shady details and follow the bizarre twists and turns, as we try to separate fact from fiction in the puzzling case of the Sloot Digital Coding System.

272 Listeners

382 Listeners

289 Listeners

623 Listeners

583 Listeners

288 Listeners

43 Listeners

986 Listeners

245 Listeners

63 Listeners

141 Listeners

73 Listeners

66 Listeners

92 Listeners

71 Listeners