The Fall Of Mt. Gox – Part 2

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🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In its prime, Mt. Gox was essentially the place where Bitcoin happened. But for two years, Mt. Gox was imploding from the inside - while soaring to unprecedented success on the outside. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Oh, July 25th, 2017, Greece.
0:19.0	July 25th, 2017, Chcidiki Peninsula, Greece.
0:25.0	Alexandra Vinnick is at the beach on summer vacation with her family.
0:31.0	She is in the water with her two children swimming when she turns to look towards the shoreline.
0:37.0	Some 20 people took part in the arrest wearing shorts, tops and sunglasses.
0:44.8	Alexander told Russia today the media arm of Russia's state propaganda.
0:49.8	I didn't understand who they were and what that was about. In a minute I saw my
0:55.2	husband handcuffed sitting on a sunbed. He didn't resist. It was a complete shock for him.
1:03.0	Alexandra and her children would be held at the beach for the following eight hours
1:07.8	without food and her phone and hotel room key confiscated
1:12.0	as they waited under the watchful eye of three officers in
1:15.6	plainclothes.
1:16.6	Later in that evening, Alexandra contacted the Russian Council in Greece.
1:21.4	Her husband was brought back to her briefly so that she could say
1:25.0	goodbye. There's no way for us to know whether in those moments
1:30.3	Alexandra Vinnick was aware or not that her husband was being taken into custody
1:36.4	in relation to a financial crime committed three and a half years earlier halfway
1:41.8	across the world.
1:43.6	So what does a Russian man vacationing in Greece in 2017 have to do with a hacking of a
1:50.9	cryptocurrency company in Tokyo in 2014.
1:55.0	Hi, I am Rand Levy.
1:57.0	Welcome to Malicious Life in collaboration withereism.
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