🫢 [VIDEO] - One FATAL Mistake Destroyed The Dark Web Overlords | Andy Greenberg • #127

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🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Buy “Tracers In The Dark” (Andy’s New Book): https://amzn.to/3AMaNWQ (***TIMESTAMPS & Book Links in description below) ~ Andy Greenberg is an award-winning journalist, author, and hacking expert. Currently, Andy is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, and information freedom. Throughout his career at Wired (and Forbes before that), Greenberg has been the go-to reporter on major international news stories including: Julian Assange & Wikileaks, Ross Ulbricht & Silk Road, Government-Sponsored hacking in Russia, China, & North Korea –– and the underworld of cryptocurrency. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Cypherpunks; Early Silk Road; Bitcoin Dark Web Integration 14:48 - Ross Ulbricht: The Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) 20:48 - The alleged hits Ross is suspected of ordering 31:17 - The Curtis Green Hit; The sketchy Baltimore DEA taskforce 37:00 - Andy attended Ross’ trial in NYC; BTC is traceable 50:56 - How the feds caught Ross 1:00:26 - The Feds catch rogue agent via Bitcoin trace; How BTC traceability was invented 1:18:19 - The Mt Gox debacle; Chainalysis 1:35:11 - Govs want crypto dead; Ways to prevent traceability 1:48:38 - John Boseak & early carders; Russia / Ukraine have brilliant hackers 1:56:46 - AlphaBay Founder: Alexandre Cazes (aka Alpha02) 2:05:15 - First breakthrough in AlphaBay case; AlphaBay size at it speak 2:17:16 - Cazes high life in Bangkok, Thailand 2:27:12 - The task force sting on Cazes in Bangkok 2:36:08 - Cazes’ mysterious death in jail 2:43:15 - Hansa & the rest of the AlphaBay takedown post-Cazes 2:50:35 - The Child Crimes Dark Web Gov Cases; Crypto traceability good? 2:55:46 - Where does digital currency go from here? Intro Credits: “Triple Frontier” (2019) “The A-Team” (2010) “Convict” (2014) “Nobody” (2021) “Dark Web: Cicada 3301” (2021) ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He turns around, goes into the master bedroom and finds that Kaz's laptop is there and still open and alive,
0:06.7	logged into Alpha Bay.
0:07.9	The Khaz is arrested.
0:09.1	He's taken to Thai jail, essentially.
0:12.2	He agrees to extradition, and then a week after his arrest, he's found dead in his jail cell.
0:18.8	Alleged suicide.
0:20.4	Right, yeah.
0:21.6	So... obviously can't relate to that yet well enjoy not relating to that well you can't
0:47.1	i will i will not in a hurry yet but listen we got a lot to talk about you have been busy
0:53.4	working away on your latest book that is coming out on November 15th. So it will, we're recording right before and then. This will have come out when the episode's on. So link is in the description. Check it out. It's called Tracers in the Dark. Fantastic book. Thank you. But we had gotten to touch on it last time, just like mentioned
1:12.1	you were working on it, but you wanted to save some of the conversation for when it was coming
1:16.0	out. And I got to tell you, I think that was a really good idea because I was under the
1:20.1	impression a lot of it was going to come back to just the Silk Road, but you went so far beyond
1:25.4	that. Definitely. I mean, the Silk Road was the beginning of the story, but truly it is a decade-long story
1:34.3	that starts with the Silk Road and ends in a place that is, you know, with about dark web sites
1:41.3	that are 10 times the size of the Silk Road, among other things, yeah.
1:45.0	Yeah, and for people out there who just aren't familiar, can you briefly just explain what the Silk Road was?
1:50.0	And then we'll get into it for sure.
1:51.0	Yeah, for sure.
1:52.0	I mean, the Silk Road, tell me if we should break this down even further.
1:57.0	The Silk Road was a dark web drug website where where a dark web drug market, where you could essentially log on with this anonymity software called Tor, the Tor browser.
2:10.0	Silk Road itself ran as a website that used Torr to make it impossible for anybody to figure out where it was hosted and who ran it.
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