$24 Million in Crypto Stolen with Michael Terpin
The Bad Crypto Podcast
Joel Comm and Travis Wright
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if you discovered that your cell phone had been hacked and that $24 million dollars in crypto was gone? It happened to Michael Terpin, founder of BitAngels, the world’s first angel network for digital currency startups. As a result, Michael is suing his cellular carrier, AT&T, for ten times that amount.
Today we speak with Michael about the hack, the lawsuit and the future of cryptocurrency.
Hold on to your SIM card because there are some bad people out there. It’s a shocking episode #235 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What would you do if you discover that your cell phone had been hacked and that $24 million in |
| 0:06.7 | crypto was gone? |
| 0:08.7 | Well, it happened to Michael Turpin, founder of Bit Angels, which is the world's first Angel network for digital currency |
| 0:15.2 | startups. |
| 0:16.2 | And as a result, Michael is suing his cellular carrier AT&T for 10 times that amount. Today we speak with Michael about the hack, the lawsuit, and |
| 0:26.2 | the future of cryptocurrency. Hold on to your Sim card because there's some bad people out |
| 0:31.8 | there. It's a shocking episode number 235 of the bad crypto podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Five, four, three, four, four, three, four, four, |
| 0:42.0 | one, zero, education. I can tell you Mr. |
| 0:43.6 | Mr. |
| 0:46.6 | Who's that? |
| 0:47.6 | I can tell you Mr. Jocom. I can tell you Mr would be very sad if I lost 24 million dollars. First of all I would be very glad that I had 24 million dollars and then oh my God I would be so sad that I no longer had that. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah well he's not happy about it and we're going to dig in with this discussion with Michael Turpin today and welcome to the bad |
| 1:11.9 | crypto podcast the show for the |
| 1:14.2 | crypto curious crypto serious and where Michael is concerned the |
| 1:18.4 | crypto furious because he is not happy about what happened. |
| 1:23.2 | Maybe a little delirious too after that I'd be like, |
| 1:26.7 | I'd be so furious I was delirious. |
| 1:29.1 | You just like the rhyming. Oh I got. |
| 1:35.0 | Mr. Trapp's right. |
| 1:36.0 | We have written a new pledge for the listeners of the Bad Cryptopoe podcast, the Citizens of the Republic of Bad Cryptopia. |
| 1:45.0 | And if you'll just repeat after me, are you ready? |
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