Federal Prosecutor Kathryn Haun On How Criminals Use Bitcoin -- And How She Catches Them

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Kathryn Haun put away the DEA and Secret Service agents who tried to make off with more than $800,000 in stolen bitcoin while investigating the darknet Silk Road marketplace. She talks about how the blockchain technology underlying Bitcoin made it possible to uncover their theft, why she believes blockchain will create a lot of good, and what she does when the very people behind tumblers and mixers -- technology that makes her work more difficult -- turn to her when they are the victims of crimes. Along the way, we learn about the habits of cryptocurrency criminals and get a fascinating view into the world of "breeder documents." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.6	Fractive recording I'm your host Laura Shin a Forbes contributor covering blockchain
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0:43.0	Just a heads up that this is the final episode of season one,
0:46.2	but please check back in 2017 for season two.
0:49.6	For today's episode, I'm speaking with Catherine Hahn,
0:51.9	who was the assistant US attorney and
0:53.7	Digital Currency Coordinator for the US Department of Justice in San Francisco, and who also teaches
0:58.6	Stanford Law School's first class on digital currency and cybercrime.
1:02.3	Catherine is also the prosecutor who put away the DEA and Secret Service agents
1:06.4	investigating the Darknet Silk Road Marketplace who tried to make off with more than $800,000 in stolen Bitcoin.
1:14.0	She's here speaking with us in her personal capacity
1:16.6	and not official capacity today.
1:18.8	Welcome to the show, Catherine.
1:20.3	Thanks for having me, Laura.
1:21.9	Tell me about what you do, how you came to be a federal prosecutor, and how FinTech Cybercrime
1:26.4	and privacy became your areas of specialty.
1:28.8	Well, now I specialize in the areas that you just mentioned, FinTech, cyber crime, privacy, but about over a decade ago,
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