Exclusive: Crypto’s Biggest Whodunnit: Who Was Behind the 2016 DAO Attack on Ethereum? - Ep.322

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

While researching for my book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, I found evidence that I believe resolves the biggest whodunnit in crypto: who hacked The DAO? This podcast is coming out in conjunction with an article in Forbes revealing the prime suspect’s identity. Part 1: Who Attacked the DAO? Here’s the Evidence To document the process of finding the alleged attacker, I wrote an article for Forbes, with which I opened the podcast. In it, I reveal who, evidence indicates, attacked the DAO how my sources and I uncovered this person’s identity how a previously undisclosed technical capability by Chainalysis helped my sources and I identify the alleged hacker Part 2: Contextualizing the DAO Attack Forbes’s Steven Ehrlich comes onto the pod to interview me about finding the DAO attacker. Topics what is The DAO, and why is it important? who are the key players in The DAO’s story how the attacker pulled off the hack what legal questions surrounded the hack why finding the attacker is important the legal implications of identifying the attacker what Laura’s interactions have been with the suspect what the future of DAOs may hold Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021 Beefy Finance: https://beefy.finance Bosonic: https://bosonic.digital/ Episode Links Laura Shin https://twitter.com/laurashin The Cryptopians http://bit.ly/cryptopians On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency/dp/1541763017/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1645037311&sr=8-2 On Barnes. &. Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cryptopians-laura-shin/1138980345?ean=9781541763012 On Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/books/the-cryptopians-idealism-greed-lies-and-the-making-of-the-first-big-cryptocurrency-craze/9781541763012 Steven Ehrlich https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/?sh=fb976542ce44 https://twitter.com/Steven_Ehrlich https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/forbescryptoassetadvisor/ The DAO Hack https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2016/06/25/understanding-the-dao-attack/ https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-matthew-leising-confronted-his-suspects-in-the-dao-attacks/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto.
0:07.7	I'm your host, Laura Shin.
0:10.4	As I mentioned, I'm revealing big news with the publication of my book today.
0:14.7	During the course of reporting the cryptopians, my sources and I believed we figured out who
0:19.5	the Dow attacker is.
0:21.5	I have a big article about it out in Forbes today, along with a video.
0:26.4	I'm going to read that article now, and at the end of the episode, Stephen Erlich,
0:30.9	editor of Forbes Cryptoasset and Blockchain Advisor, will be interviewing me about this
0:35.7	find.
0:37.0	If you haven't yet, be sure to buy your copy of the cryptopians.
0:40.8	Idealism, greed, lies, and the making of the first big cryptocurrency craze, which you
0:45.7	can do at Bentley Slash Cryptopians.
0:48.7	The hardcover is great for flipping back and forth to the list of characters in the front
0:53.0	and the glossary in the back.
0:54.6	The e-book is great for geeking out on the footnotes in which I link to all kinds of
0:58.2	blockchain transactions, social media posts, and more.
1:01.6	And the audiobook works if you find it easier to consume books that way, and if you want
1:05.4	to hear me narrate this with the kind of emotion that my sources relate to me.
1:09.7	Again, you can get your copy of the cryptopians at Bentley Slash Cryptopians.
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