While researching for my book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, I found evidence that I believe resolves the biggest whodunnit in crypto: who hacked The DAO? This podcast is coming out in conjunction with an article in Forbes revealing the prime suspect’s identity.
Part 1: Who Attacked the DAO? Here’s the Evidence
To document the process of finding the alleged attacker, I wrote an article for Forbes, with which I opened the podcast. In it, I reveal
- who, evidence indicates, attacked the DAO
- how my sources and I uncovered this person’s identity
- how a previously undisclosed technical capability by Chainalysis helped my sources and I identify the alleged hacker
Part 2: Contextualizing the DAO Attack
Forbes’s Steven Ehrlich comes onto the pod to interview me about finding the DAO attacker. Topics
- what is The DAO, and why is it important?
- who are the key players in The DAO’s story
- how the attacker pulled off the hack
- what legal questions surrounded the hack
- why finding the attacker is important
- the legal implications of identifying the attacker
- what Laura’s interactions have been with the suspect
- what the future of DAOs may hold
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Episode Links
Laura Shin
The Cryptopians
Steven Ehrlich
The DAO Hack
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