This is a money laundering case where a lot of bit coin was laundered. Money laundering has been positioned as something that's really key to crypto currencies and one of the primary uses of space. We know people that don't have a lot of money, alvays a lot of sino. E people who can just dump two million dollars on on a jpeg, have money but a lot. So i think it's important to remember that there's an equa system here that's taking advantage of a lot of people who are naive and desperate,. Yes, i think an essential point. You know, than the whale are not really going to get hurt by this. A lot of
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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