Welcome to Crash Course, a podcast about business, political, and social disruption and what we can learn from it.

I'm Tim O'Brien. Every week on Crash Course, I'm going to bring listeners directly into the arenas where epic upheavals occur and

I'm going to explore the lessons we can learn when creativity and ambition collide

with competition and power.

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In my mind at this moment is running millions of miles per second. I mean I'm telling you

now I had to figure out my next move because they had me. You know they caught me.

There was no talking out of it.

I'm Aki Ito and I'm Bradstone and on March 6 we're back with a new season of

Decrypton. We'll bring you stories about the dirty underworld of corporate spies.

Everybody hears about like someone breaking the window

and stealing laptops.

Like that, it's almost like a cliche.

What people hear less about is like black mask,

kind of a tool to break in the door, directed attack two minutes in and

out, that whole thing.

The volatile rise of a new form of money.

How much Bitcoin do you estimate you gave away during that period?

Thousands and thousands.

Of full bitcoins.

Yeah, thousands and thousands.

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