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Tech Life

A huge, new crypto heist

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We report on the latest high-profile, high value theft of cryptocurrency. David Canellis, from the website, Protos, analyses what happened. The space expert Dr Teasel Muir-Harmony explains why the US and Russia continue to co-operate over the International Space Station. And Alex Bornyakov, the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, describes how tech workers there are taking the fight to Russia.

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:31.2

Hello and welcome to TechTent.

0:33.2

I'm Jane Wakefield and on the show today,

0:35.8

cryptocurrency is never far from controversy.

0:38.4

And this week, we've seen one of the biggest cryptocurrency hacks ever.

0:42.2

And the BBC's cyber reporter, Joe Tidy, is with me and has been following this story closely.

0:46.8

So, Joe, tell us what's been going on.

0:49.3

Yeah, it's one of these strange ones that seem to come up in the cryptocurrency world,

0:53.0

where you've got a massive hack

0:55.0

that's really serious, the second biggest ever, hundreds of million dollars missing,

0:59.8

but it's all based around a game that's about NFTs and fluffy little creatures called Axis.

1:05.9

So it's a strange contradiction.

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