950 Million in sunken treasure: Gold makes you crazy [#162]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we are telling the story of Tommy Thompson, an underwater engineer that discovered the SS central America, a ship that went down in a hurricane in 1857 with upwards of 3/4 of a billion dollars in gold on board. After a decade of fighting endless lawsuits Tommy vanished with 2.1 million dollars and 500 gold coins.
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't steal the gold. |
| 0:07.9 | I don't care. |
| 0:11.0 | Hoist. |
| 0:14.8 | Hoist podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay. |
| 0:19.3 | Okay. |
| 0:20.3 | Okay. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode 162 of Heist podcast, the True Crime Podcast, without any of that murder. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Simon. And I'm Matt. We got a good one for you today. Matt, how you doing, man? |
| 0:58.2 | I'm doing good, man. Yeah, just stoked. Love this episode. It's a different one, but it's real fun. Who doesn't love, spoiler alert, sunken treasure? Sunkin treasure. But not the way you'd expect. I love this story, man. I was very captivated, so I'm excited. It's really cool. And we got some awesome news. We got some great news that people sent in. Yeah, well, I mean, you know what? Let's stop talking about what we're going to talk about it. Are you ready for some heist news? Let's get into it. All right. |
| 1:04.1 | Heist in the news. So this one comes from TechCrunch, and the headline is 5.7 million stolen in Roll Cryptoheist after Hot Wallet hacked. |
| 1:17.9 | So there's a lot. |
| 1:19.3 | I know. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, there's a lot of, lots on back there. |
| 1:22.3 | New wave terminology in that headline. |
| 1:24.7 | Exactly. |
| 1:25.8 | A security breach at cryptocurrency platform role allowed |
| 1:29.2 | a hacker to obtain the private key to its hot wallet and steal its contents worth about |
| 1:33.7 | 5.7 million. In a statement, the company said it was investigating the breach, which happened |
| 1:39.4 | early Sunday. This is amazing because this next part just sounds like a bunch of gobbledy gook to me, |
| 1:47.0 | but I imagine it's really, really, really intense to a lot of people. |
| 1:50.0 | But they went, as of this writing, it seems like a compromise of the private keys of our hot wallet and not a bug in the role smart contracts or any token contracts. |
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