In the short history of the Bitcoin industry, there has been an impressive amount of high profile hacks, ranging from a few hundred thousand to many millions of dollars. In all of these, customers, Bitcoin users, where robbed of their funds because poor security policies, negligence, incompetence, or plain old scamming. Recently, the cryptocurrency conversion service ShapeShift fell victim to a hack in which over $200,000 of company funds were stolen, initially by an employee, and then by a hacker to whom this employee had sold sensitive company information. Luckily, no customers lost any money as ShapeShift does not hold any funds on behalf of users. We talked to ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees who walks us through this captivating ordeal, which sounds like it could be the plot of a movie. He speaks about how the company is trying to recover and what he has learned from this unfortunate event. Topics we discussed on this episode: How the ShapeShift hack went downWhat steps the company has taken to avoid this from happening againWhat he learned from the hackShapeShift's long-term vision as a company and productEthereum's role in their recent growthHis history as an entrepreneur in the Bitcoin spaceHis views on libertarianism and the long-term impact of Bitcoin on that movement Links mentioned in this episode: Looting of the Fox: The Story of Sabotage at ShapeShiftBitcoin.com podcast - Details of the Shapeshift.io HackThe Slaying of BearwhaleErik's Blog Sponsors: Hide.me: Protect your privacy and personal data with a free VPN account at Hide.me/epicenter Show notes YouTube SoundCloud Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, S?ƒbastien Couture & Meher Roy.Visit our websiteSubscribe to our newsletterTwitter