Unchained: Big Ideas From The Worlds Of Blockchain And Cryptocurrency

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 que