BUY "Tracers In The Dark" (Andy's New Book) -- MY AMAZON STORE: https://amzn.to/3RPu952 Please Support Our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey Clips Channel: https://bit.ly/3LAqBSF (***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. Andy's Previous Guest Appearance (Ep. 99): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r681o0qkJR0 LISTEN ON: Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple Podcasts ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@trendifier IG: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ About TRENDIFIER with Julian Dorey: A podcast where hot takes meet context and ideas meet conversation. (Podcast / YouTube Vodcast) **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) Music via Artlist.io TRENDIFIER Episode 127 - Andy Greenberg