#174 - The FBI's New Cyber Super-Weapon Is The Dark Web's Worst Nightmare | Andy Greenberg

Andy Greenberg is an award-winning writer & journalist covering security, privacy, information freedom, and darknet hacker culture. He's the author of the new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.    EPISODE LINKS  Andy's new book: https://a.co/d/aIL02zf  https://andygreenberg.net  https://twitter.com/a_greenberg JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon DANNY LINKS https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - Introduction  6:13 - Hunting down Satoshi Nakamoto  14:00 - Interviewing Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht)  19:55 - Ross Ulbricht’s trial  22:55 - The Silk Road  39:24 - Chainalysis: The super-weapon against bitcoin  42:41 - IRS special agent Tigran Gambaryan  45:39 - DEA Agent who faked a murder and stole bitcoin from Silk Road  52:21 - Cryptography expert who cracked Bitcoin  59:47 - Mt. Gox heist  1:07:37 - Hackers & scammers in Ukraine  1:10:21 - AlphaBay darknet market  1:20:50 - The Kingpin behind AlphaBay: Alexandre Cazes  1:28:34 - The DEA sting that hijacked the entire dark web drug market  1:38:49 - Mysterious death of Alpha02 in a Thai jail  1:52:28 - How Hansa was hijacked by Dutch police  1:56:30 - The current state of the dark web  2:05:20 - Andy’s approach to journalism  2:14:15 - Interviewing Julian Assange  2:27:00 - State sponsored hacking & cyber war Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices