Mt. Gox Bitcoin Heist [#84]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of years unknown hackers syphoned off 7.3 Billion dollars of bitcoins from the exchange site Mt.Gox. That's right Billion with a "B." It's a great lesson in the double edged sword that is cyrtocurrency. Also in heist news: A 14k solid gold toilet titled America that you can take a dump in.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Can I get a one bagel, please? |
| 0:03.7 | Yeah, here you go. That'll be 0.0000003 bitcoins. |
| 0:09.1 | Do you take Ethereum? |
| 0:11.2 | Get out. |
| 0:13.0 | Heist! |
| 0:17.5 | Heyst podcast. |
| 0:19.5 | Hey everybody. Welcome to episode 84 of the heist podcast. It's the true crime podcast without the |
| 0:26.2 | murder. I'm Simon. And I'm Matt. How are you doing today, Matt? I'm doing good. Good, good. I said a lot of |
| 0:32.7 | words in that intro, as did you, that I think people are like, did they cave? Did they finally do it? |
| 0:40.1 | And the answer is, we did. We did. We're going to be talking a Bitcoin heist today. |
| 0:46.2 | Have we not? We've done a Bitcoin heist. No, no, no. We've done hacks. We've talked Bitcoin |
| 0:50.2 | heist in the news. We've never done a featured Bitcoin heist because of our longstanding |
| 0:54.8 | belief that our hatred. Yeah, I guess our open hatred and total confusion into the Bitcoin |
| 1:01.0 | craze. Right. Maybe we hated so much because we just don't understand it. And that's what we |
| 1:04.7 | attempted to do this time. But I don't think it turned out, I don't think if you're a Bitcoin |
| 1:09.6 | believer, you're going to see us as new converts |
| 1:11.8 | after this. Yeah, I mean, I didn't pay for this pizza here with a Bitcoin today. And I don't |
| 1:17.8 | think it's going to change your time soon. You didn't even pay for with money. You owe me $5. |
| 1:20.2 | But let's get into it. Should we get into some heist news? Let's do it. All right. |
| 1:26.4 | Heist in the News. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay, so Matt, I don't know if we've ever had such an overwhelming amount of tweets, |
| 1:37.0 | Instagram messages, emails, sending us one piece of heist news. |
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