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

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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.
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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
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@dannyjones
@dannyjones Жыл бұрын
Help support this podcast by visiting VERSO: Go to ver.so/koncrete to save 15% on your order. 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
@youKnowWho3311
@youKnowWho3311 Жыл бұрын
If you figure out who is Satoshi, then two things are true, BTC=0, and Satoshi is a fool. Satoshi = Kryptonite Gold > Krypto
@aaronawoodard
@aaronawoodard Жыл бұрын
@@youKnowWho3311 Why is that? What if they are dead and no one has access to those coins?
@aaronawoodard
@aaronawoodard Жыл бұрын
What about physical bitcoin? There is a guy who made devices that allow for bitcoin to be spent in the physical form, where it is stored on a device that can be verified to have whatever is claimed on it, but only transferred once a specific piece is broken off. I know you still have it coming from an address and into another, but you can always make a new wallet and retain the ability to stay anonymous more or less. Either way I assume there are operations washing BTC through exchanges to monero and lost, though I am sure this has to come with suspicion of new wallets with BTC from that was originally Monero when traced back as far as it can.
@youKnowWho3311
@youKnowWho3311 Жыл бұрын
@aaronwoodard8142 I am a tech guy by trade..... I can let you do the rest of the math, or you can know that your BTC is correlated to your network traffic and physical location with just a few tools. This statement is true for MOST people, but not all. Same for Gold. The difference is how you get it and what you do afterwards. There's a reson they will ban cash. There is also a reason the newer generations will gladly accept digital...... their bondage will be soo convenient.
@aaronawoodard
@aaronawoodard Жыл бұрын
@@youKnowWho3311 I don't think you understand that with a fully transparent system they cannot have a black market/budget. I am almost certain will prefer to retain anonymity for themselves while demanding you IDentify yourself, like it is some 2 way street. They are basically already like that, and have been pushing for it for over a century. Why will the newer generations gladly accept digital? I assume you do not qualify under that?
@MaritimeWelder503
@MaritimeWelder503 Жыл бұрын
The kid from "Shiney Flakes" website that sold cocaine/Drugs did exactly what DPR did minus the "Attempted hit" but got nowhere near that kind of sentence like 18months in Germany. America is wild with time they give out
@kiskakuznetsova503
@kiskakuznetsova503 Жыл бұрын
Ross' sort of crime is what the US prosecutes and penalizes HARD. Spies and traitors get less if they didn't expose something important (money-related).
@larrym2434
@larrym2434 Жыл бұрын
US has highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. It's just sad.
@billie.willis4068
@billie.willis4068 Жыл бұрын
It’s Super Hypocritical
@ouchhurts
@ouchhurts Жыл бұрын
judges in america think every person needs to be made a example of like some mafia shit its horrible tbh.
@x-raymind7778
@x-raymind7778 Жыл бұрын
They made an example out of him because it was something brand new
@richardcompton6702
@richardcompton6702 Жыл бұрын
Maybe the intelligence agencies don't know who Satoshi is because they ARE Satoshi.. Imagine if the FIRST blockchain network created was actually run by 80% NSA nodes, all the while doing the MOST to appear as a bastion for incontrovertible privacy. Like Andy said, even if they don't possess a majority share of the processing power supporting the blockchain then there's still the ledgers
@jordanhurst6555
@jordanhurst6555 3 ай бұрын
Exactly, the department of defense created both the internet that we know & also the dark web so wouldn't be shocked if the block chain was also a government/intelligence operation
@MrCraigtastic
@MrCraigtastic 3 ай бұрын
Don’t you think they would have cashed out to fund their operations? $25b would build quite a few new NSA data centers
@jakebaked5996
@jakebaked5996 3 ай бұрын
Don't forget about when the US government got the chemist to make them 1 Tonn of MDMA which went missing. Because who do you think is the world's biggest drug dealer? USA.
@computertech3986
@computertech3986 3 ай бұрын
@@MrCraigtastic Who's gonna buy 25b worth? Especially if the Americans own the network
@davidfrench9845
@davidfrench9845 3 ай бұрын
Exactly
@zigginzag584
@zigginzag584 Жыл бұрын
Koncrete is what JRE used to be.
@josephsmith6777
@josephsmith6777 Жыл бұрын
Fact
@senorgringopapi2059
@senorgringopapi2059 Жыл бұрын
Love it. JRE is getting worse and worse unfortunately. Danny has our back and knows what we want!
@aaronmiller7954
@aaronmiller7954 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣so wrong
@vicekingryu
@vicekingryu Жыл бұрын
Nah ya just the jre fans that indulge in conspiracy theories and the underbelly of society
@zigginzag584
@zigginzag584 Жыл бұрын
@@vicekingryu mainstream is lit yo
@NortsGhoul
@NortsGhoul Жыл бұрын
Loved this interview. I love hearing dudes who know what is going on and bring clarity to skepticism and conspiracy.
@capitalist4life
@capitalist4life Жыл бұрын
Drug users received incomparable customer service from the Silk Road ecosystem. When something from SR put me in the psych hospital, I was able to warn other users in my feedback. I still gave five stars, because the vendor gave me what I ordered, but I made it clear to other users that I had decided to flush it. The vendor responded rapidly, apologized for my experience, and warned others himself.
@J-Mac8
@J-Mac8 Жыл бұрын
What did you order?
@kimberlywalker_
@kimberlywalker_ Жыл бұрын
Did he refund your money? That is the true customer service test. If he didn't refund your money, then he really didn't give an F if his customers loved or died as long as he got to keep the money. So, did he refund your money?
@montaewilliams9174
@montaewilliams9174 Жыл бұрын
@@kimberlywalker_ why would he refund the money if he already bought it? he got what he ordered just couldnt handle it.
@kimberlywalker_
@kimberlywalker_ Жыл бұрын
@@montaewilliams9174 Don't be daft. Willful ignorance is not a good look on anyone.
@capitalist4life
@capitalist4life Жыл бұрын
@@J-Mac8 5F-PB-22.
@chriscappuccio
@chriscappuccio Жыл бұрын
William Leonard Pickard was in prison with Ross for a while and probably knows him better than most people. Leonard only got out from two life sentences for being the largest LSD manufacturer ever (aside from Eli Lilly I guess) because of the fentanyl crisis, the papers he wrote on fentanyl becoming a crisis back in the late 90s, and COVID sympathy (old man dies in jail from the flu type sentiment.) You should interview Leonard, there's tons and tons of material there, and he knows a lot about whatever Ross was doing since they were best budz for several recent years.
@kiskakuznetsova503
@kiskakuznetsova503 Жыл бұрын
YES!
@joshjennings3160
@joshjennings3160 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Woah!
@SortaSalty
@SortaSalty Жыл бұрын
Nice tip
@Omnipotent645
@Omnipotent645 Жыл бұрын
WOW thanks for that info. Knew of Pickards story and obviously Ulbrichts story but never knew they were in the same prison.
@jdi801
@jdi801 Жыл бұрын
In this really good interview with William Leonard Pickard, he talks quite a bit about being in prison and knowing Ross well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ns1oa62Qp5zbcpc.html
@chriscappuccio
@chriscappuccio Жыл бұрын
I find it incredibly hard to believe that technically minded folks like Ross didn't understand the blockchain. It's a PUBLIC LEDGER.
@greatwhiteswag
@greatwhiteswag Жыл бұрын
I think it was possibly the belief of "not gonna happen to me."
@yunggoosbumps215
@yunggoosbumps215 Жыл бұрын
Ross didn't create the site he just directed the people he contacted for help. He was a philosophical mind, not a technical mind by any means.
@S-K69
@S-K69 Жыл бұрын
Ross wasn’t caught because they traced his Bitcoin address back to his real identity Ross got caught by an IRS accountant because he had posted his personal email address on a forum under his “DreadPirateRoberts” username when he was looking for people to work with him on the SilkRoad
@johnnybegood25
@johnnybegood25 Жыл бұрын
I hear ya. I just feel like some people just feel like they will never get caught it's strange but it happens
@dopaminefield
@dopaminefield Жыл бұрын
The crypto scene is full of people who choose to believe the things they like. Smart and educated people who should know a lot better, but nope. Most are blind to a simple fact that the costs that go into designing, manufacturing, servicing, running and fueling the ASIC mining network massively outweighs the gains it brings into the economy in solving practical problems. Especially because bitcoin proof-of-work problem that the ASICs are solving shouldn't exist anymore in the first place, since first proof-of-stake solution was created 10 years ago, that still works just as well as proof-of-work but with MUCH lesser costs. Crypto is madness of current times that is fueled by greed and stupidity. People with weak ideals and those who manipulate them for personal gain. History will look back at crypto with a big WTF.
@europeanroyalty4778
@europeanroyalty4778 Жыл бұрын
" Who has the restraint to sit on tens of billions of dollars "?? Government's! Who has the ability to make something on the web completely untraceable?? The NSA. Maybe nakamoto is the NSA?
@twentypruno7774
@twentypruno7774 Жыл бұрын
ita russia
@hemanabanana6906
@hemanabanana6906 Жыл бұрын
100 percent it was intelligence . To fool us into the coming digital CBDC programmable money age . Totally agree . NSA CIAor even MI6 or Mossad
@beryllium1932
@beryllium1932 3 ай бұрын
Who can sit on a moldy sofa in mom's basement...
@patrickday4206
@patrickday4206 2 ай бұрын
The cia is capable and sold drugs in the past
@sproutsisters5398
@sproutsisters5398 Жыл бұрын
Satoshi is probably a govt entity or govt agent who wanted to create a traceable currency which appeared untraceable to everyone else
@dolphin069
@dolphin069 Жыл бұрын
Pretty clear it was a way of tracking criminal funny money and a gateway to digital currency.
@ImGairBair
@ImGairBair Жыл бұрын
Facts. Test run for CBDC’s.
@genuflext
@genuflext Жыл бұрын
yes, obvi
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR, the true cypherpunk Dream
@internetperson9121
@internetperson9121 Жыл бұрын
Interesting theory but if the government tried to create a blockchain currency they’d still be fielding bids on it and holding meetings. If you’ve been as unfortunate as I have to work a gubment job, I think you might have a different perspective
@jvcobR
@jvcobR 3 ай бұрын
YOUR A BEAST ANDY, I just found you and your work is absolutely riveting !! Thank you for all that you do brother!
@jedimindtrixr4kidz294
@jedimindtrixr4kidz294 Жыл бұрын
Brian Posehn is full of talents
@christophersmith1426
@christophersmith1426 Жыл бұрын
^good content
@TheMohawkNinja
@TheMohawkNinja Жыл бұрын
I disagree with the judge's argument of increasing violence internationally. It should not be the legal fault of anyone in a country, by that country, for crimes committed outside that country. Who cares if my actions indirectly cause violence in a foreign nation? I'm not being charged in that foreign nation, nor am I a citizen of that foreign nation, so why should there be domestic legal action taken against me due to events in a foreign nation? Now, if said foreign nation wants to take action, that's fine, but a judge in the U.S. should not be legally allowed to sentence someone based on the actions committed (or for that matter, assumed actions, since there probably wasn't any evidence given to back the claim) in a foreign nation.
@kenvaughn6379
@kenvaughn6379 Жыл бұрын
When the FBI comes up immediately people think corruption.
@jorpic233
@jorpic233 Жыл бұрын
No denying that.
@dannyjones
@dannyjones Жыл бұрын
Lmao
@observingcitizen404
@observingcitizen404 Жыл бұрын
You could not be more accurate
@mr.stinker9335
@mr.stinker9335 Жыл бұрын
How about, when anything gobmint comes up. Corrupt
@WSFM_Rex
@WSFM_Rex Жыл бұрын
If you can’t beat ‘em join em 😎 🇺🇸
@hsvjo707gh3
@hsvjo707gh3 Жыл бұрын
I'm shocked that "law enforcement" local or federal from Baltimore were involved in corruption 😂🤣
@dylandoss8854
@dylandoss8854 Жыл бұрын
definitely gonna need a part 2. great work.
@newbritainpauly4841
@newbritainpauly4841 Жыл бұрын
Koncrete has the greatest intro in the history of podcast !!!
@peterseinfeld
@peterseinfeld Жыл бұрын
Insanely good podcast. Definitely have this guy back on .
@andrewf4865
@andrewf4865 Жыл бұрын
This interview is amazing, such a well versed and very interesting guest to have on the pod!
@marktaylor5671
@marktaylor5671 Жыл бұрын
This is my favorite Koncrete episode. Fascinating information 🤘
@chrisculhane3777
@chrisculhane3777 Жыл бұрын
As an ex user it's no one fault but mine for my drug use. If I died that was my fault no one else. I almost did more than 5 times
@alabastardmasterson
@alabastardmasterson 2 ай бұрын
Saying that violence higher up the chain increased is the worst argument I've ever heard. We are all dumber for you quoting a corrupt judge that was lying to justify a ridiculous sentence
@211212112
@211212112 Жыл бұрын
So who tf actually killed Epstien. To get someone in there it would seem like the guards on duty would know at least something suspicious happened.
@1980999chris
@1980999chris Жыл бұрын
He isnt dead. Trump smuggled him to israel. Prob got facial reconstruction
@backupinit
@backupinit Жыл бұрын
His clients
@lymphomasurvive
@lymphomasurvive 3 ай бұрын
There are fail safe systems built into jails. If the cameras weren’t working, the warden would have been notified at home.
@patrickday4206
@patrickday4206 2 ай бұрын
Money and threats
@mymamasayslibsarethedevil5776
@mymamasayslibsarethedevil5776 Жыл бұрын
Seems like you answered your own question in regards to who Satoshi is. Why couldn't the government have created it, told everyone that is it anonymous, then busted all the criminals that used it?
@RealMTBAddict
@RealMTBAddict Жыл бұрын
Because bitcoin isn't illegal
@heresthedeal1727
@heresthedeal1727 Жыл бұрын
thaz what i'm sayin
@threefoureight3208
@threefoureight3208 Жыл бұрын
because thats some shadey as corrupt shit for the govt to pull on people for 1 ...
@sproutsisters5398
@sproutsisters5398 Жыл бұрын
I think that's exactly what happened. What better way to track criminals than to create a currency that only criminals would use in large parts
@hemanabanana6906
@hemanabanana6906 Жыл бұрын
And because crypto being introduced to soften the population up for the coming CBDCs that are being rolled out around the world
@NoleInJax
@NoleInJax Жыл бұрын
It never made sense to me why people thought you could have anonymity while having all transactions on a public ledger .
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR, thank me later King
@dorsia6938
@dorsia6938 Жыл бұрын
This guy was a great guest. Really well spoken and able to sum up this complex narrative really succinctly. Edit: just finished, get this guy back asap
@420BudNuggets
@420BudNuggets Жыл бұрын
Rip Silk Road and alpha bay. 2 of the best websites ever made 😢
@BK-uf6xm
@BK-uf6xm Жыл бұрын
History is being written !!!!!!!! What a time to be alive !!!!!!
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Facts, Monero XMR
@chrisconnor8086
@chrisconnor8086 Жыл бұрын
Already knew about Ross but the takedown of the Alpha guy in Thailand was one of the most interesting things i ever heard. One of my best friends got raided in 2014 for drug dealing during our sophomore year of college. He never understood exactly how he got caught it must have been through the block-analysis
@xprettylightsx
@xprettylightsx Жыл бұрын
He sold or was told on to a cop
@hexoroid
@hexoroid Жыл бұрын
Just kike he said he used online exchange and linked bank to it. There are cold wallets and I suppose offshore exchanges.. like he said maybe now Russia is offshore now.
@lymphomasurvive
@lymphomasurvive 3 ай бұрын
Because Bitcoin is fully traceable.
@XOverdosed_1
@XOverdosed_1 Жыл бұрын
His reference to Hamsterdam made him a real one in my book
@wolfpecker5710
@wolfpecker5710 Жыл бұрын
💯
@ChrisHaefner
@ChrisHaefner Жыл бұрын
Andy knows the darknet and can write a great story. I loved this book! Andy, your buddy DeSnake went dark, and the market has been offline since February. There are rumors some other admin might take it over, but who knows. DeSnake just stopped updating the canary, so half the people couldn't log in due to 2fa.
@charlieknight-tech
@charlieknight-tech Жыл бұрын
I read this one too. Also read "Sandworm" Which inspired me to try and read Dune again. .
@ipawdmaster
@ipawdmaster Жыл бұрын
Ngl tempted to get back on the net been so long but I remember back in the day getting the best drugs and I didn't have to worry about any bs fent and all this other deadly shit going around
@adamwalker7726
@adamwalker7726 Жыл бұрын
Plot Twist: This guy is actually "D-Snake" and this interview is a brilliant catfishing / advertising campaign for the new AlphaBay...
@Piersmoron
@Piersmoron Жыл бұрын
🙀
@dantemagliari1073
@dantemagliari1073 Жыл бұрын
Get ready boys!!!!
@jbparker5466
@jbparker5466 Жыл бұрын
I learned a long time ago that the “Hackers” are way ahead of the feds.
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Hackers use Monero
@smeagle3295
@smeagle3295 Жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. I hope Andy DOES come back.
@JulianDorey
@JulianDorey Жыл бұрын
The Koncrete / Greenberg Collab is here 🤌
@MrJoosebawkz
@MrJoosebawkz Жыл бұрын
i know it’s probably not that interesting since nobody got caught but i wished he mentioned Agora. The only market to shut down without exit scamming or getting arrested/taken down
@lukewright3095
@lukewright3095 Жыл бұрын
Dream also
@Joshua-yn1zx
@Joshua-yn1zx Жыл бұрын
Bitcoin reminds me of the time cops used Superbowl tickets to catch wanted criminals!
@peterdelia1814
@peterdelia1814 Жыл бұрын
If there is going to be a dark web where individuals gravitate. It makes sense to me that perhaps the world of surveillance would create an ideal dark world to trap them.
@peaceformula5830
@peaceformula5830 Жыл бұрын
The alphabet agencies are the ones selling the stuff
@fanuvkorn85
@fanuvkorn85 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like they already did
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR, thank me later bros
@boomcrypto8347
@boomcrypto8347 Жыл бұрын
An agent of Homeland security said that they met with Satoshi in the beginning and it was 4 people. Why is this still not known?
@jerrylouis8930
@jerrylouis8930 Жыл бұрын
Those four were authorized to act in concert as needed.
@boomcrypto8347
@boomcrypto8347 Жыл бұрын
@@jerrylouis8930 Explain your comment please?
@jerrylouis8930
@jerrylouis8930 Жыл бұрын
@@boomcrypto8347 The value of the product is in the miners, right? Any action which protects them would have to be paramount. The notion of a website for illicit affairs precludes the mechanisms by which those things (guns/drugs/etc.) already existed. Running an operation to undermine the miners with devices on hand cannot be underestimated.
@boomcrypto8347
@boomcrypto8347 Жыл бұрын
@@jerrylouis8930 Thanks. One could have taken what you said earlier more than one way. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I had not looked at it that way.
@omega3fatass61
@omega3fatass61 Жыл бұрын
source?
@MrTurkgod
@MrTurkgod Жыл бұрын
Amazing episode as usual! Any chance of getting a guest talking about HAARP and the real behind the scenes of these earthquakes in Turkey?
@xaviergrave5187
@xaviergrave5187 Жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iptgZK953Za2j4U.html You might find that one interesting the topic of haarp is discussed here
@MrTurkgod
@MrTurkgod Жыл бұрын
@@xaviergrave5187 wow hey thank you for being so thoughtful. I'd already seen this one, one of my favs
@xaviergrave5187
@xaviergrave5187 Жыл бұрын
Yea.that whole haarp situation is crazy shot. I have known about it for years n to control some natural disasters that could cause so many deaths with that one powerful machine but they can control them alright called cloud seeding program
@MrTurkgod
@MrTurkgod Жыл бұрын
@@xaviergrave5187 Yeah you’re right. It takes time and research for the mind to properly compartmentalise what’s really out there. With recent global events, the US, Turkey and NATO. I’d be curious to get more info on what’s really happening with these earthquakes
@thomasmacginnes100
@thomasmacginnes100 Жыл бұрын
remember Pakistan ? /Bam ? /Thailand-environs?/FookooShimahh?/see joe vials if you can find his stuff
@anonymissed3611
@anonymissed3611 Жыл бұрын
The first thing a permanent, virtual transaction record should suggest is eventual trackability.
@thomasmacginnes100
@thomasmacginnes100 Жыл бұрын
its’ almost implied !
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR, thank me later anonymissed
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
These "reporters' are not being honest
@virgilkane7369
@virgilkane7369 Жыл бұрын
" Half the DEA is CIA . " Charles Bowden
@thomasmacginnes100
@thomasmacginnes100 Жыл бұрын
many of these are their own [joint task EnForcers] ?
@teniente8282
@teniente8282 Жыл бұрын
This was amazing! This pod is heavily underrated
@antoniomendez2881
@antoniomendez2881 Жыл бұрын
Chainalysis means nothing if you wash your crypto and convert it into Monero...then back to your coin of choice. Don't use a regulated exchange to conduct any cryptocurrency transactions.
@michaelm9871
@michaelm9871 Жыл бұрын
I take issue with Greenburg saying in reference to tracing transactions 'It's possible if you know how to crack the code.' That implies that by tracing transactions you're somehow breaking the blockchain or obtaining information that is meant to be unavailable. The blockchain is by definition a public historical ledger of all transactions. There's no 'cracking the code' going on, you're simply looking at it and seeing where the coins have gone. It is this way by design. Just because you and others misunderstood the technology early on doesn't change what it was, is and always was intended to be, which is a public ledger.
@hemanabanana6906
@hemanabanana6906 Жыл бұрын
Just legalize all drugs
@TheCaptainSlappy
@TheCaptainSlappy Жыл бұрын
Just include immediate execution for lesser crimes. Like dopeheads/dealers. Worked great for Duterte. Dread Punk Roberts, meet Judge Dredd.
@onedeep6460
@onedeep6460 Жыл бұрын
This is the way
@Crown42
@Crown42 Жыл бұрын
Lol, that's why hackers and scammers use monero and pirate chain to stay anonymous. Allegedly, hahaha!
@11474403a
@11474403a Жыл бұрын
i saw the thumbnail and thought "woah vsauce, but after finding out this man is not michael im still impresssed"
@tsuobachi
@tsuobachi Жыл бұрын
This guy's been writing about Bitcoin since 2012 and he still doesn't know the plural of bitcoin is bitcoin? Also, if you didn't know that every transaction has always been traceable, that's on you. It means you never bothered to learn what the word blockchain means. And if you're that intellectually lazy, you get what you get. Everyone I've known in the crypto world since 2009 has understood this basic stuff. It's the whole reason that blockchain would be perfect for government spending and voting. It's traceable and transparent, the two things the government doesn't want applied to them, but desperately want for the people.
@foxlbee6173
@foxlbee6173 Жыл бұрын
That’s right, it’s also called a Public Ledger, which says it all.
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR for the People, BTC for Governments
@chumanimgijimachumani2059
@chumanimgijimachumani2059 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching Silk road documentary and Ross's last were something "now that you taking my youth days away from me,kindly spare me my old age years for I am paying for my sins with my entire youth day"after being sentence to life without parole..it's sad to know he could have been killed in prison 💔
@triple_gem_shining
@triple_gem_shining Жыл бұрын
Bro he's in no physical danger In prison. When you're a big kingpin like him you get a lot of respect in the prison system 🤪
@aw0111
@aw0111 Жыл бұрын
The guy Ross is in USP Tuscon Arizona max penitentiary and he's not considered a big timer or anything USPS are very dangerouse places to be his life is in danger just as anyone else who is there
@adamgardener8624
@adamgardener8624 Жыл бұрын
Maybe he gets a lot of love on his books and can have spread and pruno errrrday
@6mane189
@6mane189 Жыл бұрын
andy is a living legend love this guy
@billsny9243
@billsny9243 3 ай бұрын
This podcast is an enigma. The beginning is death metal. The title is 90s graffiti. The host is a pothead surfer look a like. The conversations are deep and meaningful. If you elevator pitched this to a podcast group, they'd laugh at you❤ Danny im messing with you
@KnarKnarSicky
@KnarKnarSicky 10 ай бұрын
This has quickly become one of my favorite podcast’s.
@CheeferSutherland
@CheeferSutherland Жыл бұрын
Seriously great work, killing it with these guests. I’m clueless in the world of crypto currencies for the most part and technical/computer stuff like hacking but this dude speaks well and does a great job explaining how it works. Great interview again and it’s a bit off topic but please interview Doug Tallamy!! Such an important subject with little to no acknowledgment.
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Douglas Tuman a better interview imo
@fothrmuckr
@fothrmuckr Жыл бұрын
I watch all his interviews they're so interesting
@Khlandestine
@Khlandestine Жыл бұрын
In short tor is not secure on a pc?
@Khlandestine
@Khlandestine Жыл бұрын
*even on tails?
@CallmeBigfat
@CallmeBigfat Жыл бұрын
hey guys this is V sauce's cousin here
@Carleon.
@Carleon. Жыл бұрын
SHOUT OUT TO KONCRETE PODCAST! DANNY & AUSTIN KEEP DOING YOUR THING, YOU GUYS ARE HIGHLY UNDERRATED! 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@George999Welch
@George999Welch Жыл бұрын
Are you positive the FBI didn't have a hand in creating Bitcoin? They had a role in creating a "surveillance-proof" phone....
@Ataraxia_Atom
@Ataraxia_Atom Жыл бұрын
Aww man i love Andy Greenberg
@Thinker-vo5pp
@Thinker-vo5pp 3 ай бұрын
Anyone who talks shit on Julian and sides with gov is automatically untrustworthy
@danielj6824
@danielj6824 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone have a link to the leak about chainalysis telling the Italian police theh had compromised Monero?
@buttercup9926
@buttercup9926 Жыл бұрын
also interested
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Its not, Keep stacking, Dark nets are operating business as usual
@tonywims8848
@tonywims8848 Жыл бұрын
Ever heard of mixers and monero?
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Based Chad
@Optable
@Optable Жыл бұрын
I know that voice! Darknet Diaries: 23 Kids Saved from Abuse from Crypto Tracing
@kronikwizard
@kronikwizard Жыл бұрын
First time I've seen a host kick out a person doing a great interview. First he interrupts to order Uber then again to give him 4 minute warning, obviously Greenberg had a lot more to say and wasnt in a rush. Smh
@fmo94jos8v3
@fmo94jos8v3 Жыл бұрын
This guy *actually* believed Craig Wright's lies... Wow. Well I guess he wasn't the only one fooled but I thought it was pretty obvious CW was not Satoshi - his narcissistic attitude doesn't match Satoshi's selfless attitude.
@wolfpecker5710
@wolfpecker5710 Жыл бұрын
You have to think that was before people really knew what a psycho CW was
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Shows you this guy is a retard, Everybody knows Monero is the new dark net currency
@bomte.k
@bomte.k Жыл бұрын
I think the last time I commented on one of your podcast, I crapped all over your stumbling over questions and generally weak interviewing skills. You have much improved and I appreciate that. Your questions were solid with real thought as when to place them through-out the interview. Good job.
@theSemiChrist
@theSemiChrist Жыл бұрын
I didn't know that VSauce knew Dread Pirate Roberts.
@josephsmith6777
@josephsmith6777 Жыл бұрын
If you sell drugs on the street the start up takes a lot longer but if you move right it can last much longer than the 2 yr length of the average dnm
@2solid4tv48
@2solid4tv48 Жыл бұрын
Rip mcafee !! he told us about tracking Crypto already !
@DanRustle
@DanRustle Жыл бұрын
He didn’t tell us anything that other ppl told us years ago.
@Jaroningo
@Jaroningo Жыл бұрын
This was a really really good episode. Especially the fact - about "no one can hack/trace" cryptos. Knew it all along like because it was a marketing scheme. What comes to the identity of Satoshi, guessing the developer was really intelligence community. Only community that can keep 'secrets' like that closed this long. Only community/person, who would not need to use his coins. At all.
@compromisedssh
@compromisedssh Жыл бұрын
Satoshi’s identity isn’t in doubt. There’s even a KZfaq video with millions of views that names him. He isn’t affiliated with an intelligence agency in any way lol
@thomasmacginnes100
@thomasmacginnes100 Жыл бұрын
perhaps it is one of those ‘subrosa’ un’tell agencys’lol
@wolfpecker5710
@wolfpecker5710 Жыл бұрын
@@compromisedssh bs. Satoshi’s identity is 100% still in doubt. If his identity was proven it wouldn’t reside on just a single KZfaq video 😂
@Jaroningo
@Jaroningo Жыл бұрын
@@compromisedssh Why did you have to lie? I guess we all know the answer.
@compromisedssh
@compromisedssh Жыл бұрын
@@Jaroningo what are you talking about? Guess no one knows the answer.
@mackeerererallll6
@mackeerererallll6 Жыл бұрын
I used to frequent alpha bay. Was apart of the exit scam from Grow More
@MrGlossyEdits
@MrGlossyEdits Жыл бұрын
The department of homeland security knows the identity of satoshi nakamoto.
@JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ6
@JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ6 Жыл бұрын
Gnarliest intro of all podcast intros sir. Well done. Also, good interviews too 😊
@Crazy_YT_Shorts_
@Crazy_YT_Shorts_ Жыл бұрын
there are only 2 options as to who satoshi nakamoto is.its either the US government or china.
@thomasmacginnes100
@thomasmacginnes100 Жыл бұрын
collaberation if you have any pieces.....
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Paul Calder LeRoux aka Solotshi
@jvcobR
@jvcobR 3 ай бұрын
@25:30 RIP to my Brother Jordan Mettee... Love you man. You are never forgotten.
@chrisculhane3777
@chrisculhane3777 Жыл бұрын
The silk road at least for drugs was awesome. Clean and pure not mixed with fentanyl
@Lil-Dogpoole
@Lil-Dogpoole Жыл бұрын
The NSA created Bitcoin
@chrismcdonald5775
@chrismcdonald5775 Жыл бұрын
lmfao Danny that was hilarious where you just assumed he would be a conspiracy theorist like you and agree with you on Greenwald and he just shut you down. Love to see it. You, the layman just regurgitating fringe headlines to someone who's an actual journalist. XD oh god that's hilarious.
@dcat33
@dcat33 Жыл бұрын
People forget what sovereignty means
@smurf8526
@smurf8526 Жыл бұрын
Dude kept smashing the whole podcast
@aaronawoodard
@aaronawoodard Жыл бұрын
I would stay hidden if I were Satoshi, keeping an eye on my baby. The financial institutions will come for it, why they use their excess funny money to buy it all up and think they drove up the market, then Satoshi fixes it by evening out the coins between everyone, single handedly removing the wealth gap... Sounds like a decent plan and a hell of a task for an individual. One can dream right?
@coffeemakir1977
@coffeemakir1977 Жыл бұрын
I've wondered if shitoshi is a government funded group.
@mrvapor4791
@mrvapor4791 Жыл бұрын
Next your going to tell us who shot JFK..
@jeffmiller3499
@jeffmiller3499 Жыл бұрын
Idc it's 100% the elites/CIA. If it wasn't, the creator wouldn't be a mystery. Like, what other big thing in history, especially something like the primary competing currency, has a unseen creator lol? Convenient. Especially when they have such a hardcore agenda to get to CBDC to enslave the human race. The thing that sealed it for me was executive order 14067, signed the thing on March 13, the 6th month thing ended on Dec 13th, the exact day SBF got arrested (like why wasn't he arrested way before that) Ftx & SBF were a sham & shill from the beginning, to justify regulation. (& Fund the DNC) Essentially a financial false flag to crack down. No different than a staged mass shooting to crack down gun laws.
@johnkirby939
@johnkirby939 Жыл бұрын
@@mrvapor4791 probably the same people lol
@awakenyisrael
@awakenyisrael Жыл бұрын
Just look up the actual meaning of his whole name. Tells ya everything you know.
@TheHaughtyOsprey
@TheHaughtyOsprey Жыл бұрын
Thats commie crypto amigo. Shit infected every device it touched and the ones connected to it bwahahaaaa
@rockandrollisyourmom
@rockandrollisyourmom Жыл бұрын
This is what I've felt about crypto from the beginning. Zero privacy.
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
Monero XMR, thank me later Mom
@jordanhurst6555
@jordanhurst6555 3 ай бұрын
Theres a difference between legalization & decriminalization. Libertarians would be in favor of legalization but not decriminalizing them.
@Waggywag123
@Waggywag123 Жыл бұрын
This guy thinks the dark web started after 2007. Instantly lost credibility.
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
He also lies and doesnt tell you Monero XMR has taken over the Dark Nets
@dougjudy4268
@dougjudy4268 Жыл бұрын
What about monero XMR or SCRT block chain
@3six933
@3six933 Жыл бұрын
This guy isnt being honest bro, keep stackin the true private cryptos
@dougjudy4268
@dougjudy4268 Жыл бұрын
​@@3six933 or even Oasis ROSE
@kenvaughn6379
@kenvaughn6379 Жыл бұрын
The FBI ? Oh shit there goes the neighbor…..
@xenostim
@xenostim 3 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if ill make it through to the end of this pod. Is the super powerful cyberweapon just chain analysis?
@mileshall9235
@mileshall9235 Жыл бұрын
Dude still hanging on to Russia Gate 😂
@senorgringopapi2059
@senorgringopapi2059 Жыл бұрын
If he put $1,000 in back then when bitcoin was $1 and he was writing about it, he would have $25M today. And it’s always going up. Geez.
@dannyjones
@dannyjones Жыл бұрын
😩
@MrPandatheman
@MrPandatheman Жыл бұрын
Best podcast yet well done great guest
@cwprimo
@cwprimo Жыл бұрын
the super air leak @1:23:26 is my ringtone for the next week - attaboi.
@FerscMoses
@FerscMoses Жыл бұрын
The dark web already existed in 2007 tho x'D
@jayr3635
@jayr3635 Жыл бұрын
Am l wrong in feeling the elite hackers will ALWAYS be a few steps ahead of law enforcement!? Maybe I'm wrong and they're closing the gap a bit...
@triple_gem_shining
@triple_gem_shining Жыл бұрын
Do more of these kinds!
@itsme7570
@itsme7570 Жыл бұрын
We want all the nerdy details Andy
@rauhanaika
@rauhanaika Жыл бұрын
No Danny, the fracture only indicates that it’s a 50% chance to be from strangulation. It in no way confirms this. And 27% fractures in hangings is far from a small chance unlike you make it sound to be. This kinda thing keeps happening because you do not pay attention and it comes off as disrespectful towards both the one you’re interviewing and the ones watching the interview. 💔
@PawgSlayer
@PawgSlayer Жыл бұрын
Koncrete = trailer park jre
@jefferyburks3800
@jefferyburks3800 Жыл бұрын
And that’s a good thing
@nickratti5796
@nickratti5796 Жыл бұрын
Any time stamp for the headline?
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