The 2016 DAO Attack: Crisis and Autonomy

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

• https://twitter.com/laurashin

The Cryptopians

• http://bit.ly/cryptopians 
• On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency/dp/1541763017/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1645037311&sr=8-2
• On Barnes. &. Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cryptopians-laura-shin/1138980345?ean=9781541763012 
• On Bookshop.org:  https://bookshop.org/books/the-cryptopians-idealism-greed-lies-and-the-making-of-the-first-big-cryptocurrency-craze/9781541763012

Steven Ehrlich

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/?sh=fb976542ce44 
• https://twitter.com/Steven_Ehrlich 
• https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/forbescryptoassetadvisor/ 

The DAO Hack

• https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2016/06/25/understanding-the-dao-attack/
• https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
• https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-matthew-leising-confronted-his-suspects-in-the-dao-attacks/

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