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(***TIMESTAMPS & Book Links in description below) ~ Andy Greenberg is an award-winning journalist, author, and hacking expert. Currently, Andy is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, and information freedom. Throughout his career at Wired (and Forbes before that), Greenberg has been the go-to reporter on major international news stories including: Julian Assange & Wikileaks, Ross Ulbricht & Silk Road, Government-Sponsored hacking in Russia, China, & North Korea –– and the underworld of cryptocurrency.

***TIMESTAMPS***

0:00 - Cypherpunks; Early Silk Road; Bitcoin Dark Web Integration

14:48 - Ross Ulbricht: The Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR)

20:48 - The alleged hits Ross is suspected of ordering

31:17 - The Curtis Green Hit; The sketchy Baltimore DEA taskforce

37:00 - Andy attended Ross’ trial in NYC; BTC is traceable

50:56 - How the feds caught Ross

1:00:26 - The Feds catch rogue agent via Bitcoin trace; How BTC traceability was invented

1:18:19 - The Mt Gox debacle; Chainalysis

1:35:11 - Govs want crypto dead; Ways to prevent traceability

1:48:38 - John Boseak & early carders; Russia / Ukraine have brilliant hackers

1:56:46 - AlphaBay Founder: Alexandre Cazes (aka Alpha02)

2:05:15 - First breakthrough in AlphaBay case; AlphaBay size at it speak

2:17:16 - Cazes high life in Bangkok, Thailand

2:27:12 - The task force sting on Cazes in Bangkok

2:36:08 - Cazes’ mysterious death in jail

2:43:15 - Hansa & the rest of the AlphaBay takedown post-Cazes

2:50:35 - The Child Crimes Dark Web Gov Cases; Crypto traceability good?

2:55:46 - Where does digital currency go from here?

Intro Credits:

“Triple Frontier” (2019)

“The A-Team” (2010)

“Convict” (2014)

“Nobody” (2021)

“Dark Web: Cicada 3301” (2021)

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