Lorenzo francesco bicarai: I think this case will be interesting for a long time. The big question to me, is like, how did they even get the money? Like, who hacked bet phinax, and why did they send the money to to this couple? And and what happened to these people? So that will be interesting to see. If i were to speculate, i imagine that this is just step one in a larger investigation.
Paris Marx is joined by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to discuss the arrest of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan for trying to launder the $5 billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack, how they were moving the money, how the authorities found them, and what lessons the case might hold.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is senior staff writer at Motherboard. Follow Lorenzo on Twitter at @lorenzofb.
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