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CYBER: Crime and Crypto with Cory Doctorow

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Crypto and crime, crime and crypto. They go together like spreadsheets and tax evasion. When cryptocurrency hit the scene it was, according to its evangelists, going to usher in a world of decentralized currency and free everyone from the shackles of oppressive central banks. Turns out it’s also been a pretty great way to launder money.


It’s also the subject of the new book Red Team Blues, a novel from writer Cory Doctorow. In Red Team Blues a 67 year old forensic accountant finds himself at the center of a crypto-crime mystery that takes him from the heights of silicon valley to the depths of the Tenderloin. This week on Cyber, Doctorow walks us through a brief history of the valley and why he wrote three books about an old accountant during the pandemic.


Doctorow is the author of more than two dozen books and too many articles to count. He’s currently blogging at pluralistic.net.


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0:00.0

Captain, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:10.0

It's a unit system. I know this.

0:15.0

It's how the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:23.5

The Eagle won. The package is being delivered.

0:27.9

Hello out there on the internet.

0:30.0

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

0:32.4

Crypto and crime, crime and crypto.

0:35.1

They go together like spreadsheets and tax evasion.

0:37.5

When cryptocurrency hit the scene, it was, according to its evangelists,

0:38.7

going to usher in a world,

0:40.2

decentralized currency that would free people

0:42.5

from the shackles of oppressive central banks.

0:45.0

And it turns out it was a pretty great way

0:47.2

to launder money.

0:49.2

Crypto is also the subject of the new book

0:51.3

Red Team Blues, a novel from writer Corey Doctro.

0:54.8

In Red Team Blues, a 67-year-old forensic accountant finds himself at the center of a crypto crime mystery

1:00.1

that takes him from the heights of Silicon Valley to the depths of the tenderloin. He's with us here

1:05.4

today to talk about it. Doctoro, in case you don't know, is the author of more than a dozen books

1:10.2

and too many articles to count.

1:12.4

He's currently blogging at crappound.com, and you can still often see some pretty good threads of his on Twitter while it lasts.

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