#174 - The FBI's New Cyber Super-Weapon Is The Dark Web's Worst Nightmare | Andy Greenberg

Andy Greenberg is an award-winning writer & journalist covering security, privacy, information freedom, and darknet hacker culture. He's the author of the new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. EPISODE LINKS Andy's new book: https://a.co/d/aIL02zf https://andygreenberg.net https://twitter.com/a_greenberg JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon DANNY LINKS https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 6:13 - Hunting down Satoshi Nakamoto 14:00- Interviewing Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht) 19:55- Ross Ulbricht’s trial 22:55- The Silk Road 39:24- Chainalysis: The super-weapon against bitcoin 42:41- IRS special agent Tigran Gambaryan 45:39- DEA Agent who faked a murder and stole bitcoin from Silk Road 52:21- Cryptography expert who cracked Bitcoin 59:47- Mt. Gox heist 1:07:37- Hackers & scammers in Ukraine 1:10:21- AlphaBay darknet market 1:20:50- The Kingpin behind AlphaBay: Alexandre Cazes 1:28:34- The DEA sting that hijacked the entire dark web drug market 1:38:49- Mysterious death of Alpha02 in a Thai jail 1:52:28- How Hansa was hijacked by Dutch police 1:56:30- The current state of the dark web 2:05:20- Andy’s approach to journalism 2:14:15- Interviewing Julian Assange 2:27:00- State sponsored hacking & cyber war

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