Tech Won't Save Us17 Helmi 2022

Cringe Raps and $5 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin w/ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Paris Marx is joined by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to discuss the arrest of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan for trying to launder the $5 billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack, how they were moving the money, how the authorities found them, and what lessons the case might hold.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is senior staff writer at Motherboard. Follow Lorenzo on Twitter at @lorenzofb.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode: Lorenzo wrote about the arrest of the couple and Heather Morgan’s cringe raps as Razzlekhan. Along with Motherboard colleagues, he also dug deep into the couple’s history and online presence. The Bitcoin they held and tried to launder came from the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. People who knew Morgan told the New York Times her social media presence was “part of an elaborate act to confront social pressures.” In 2014, Mt. Gox was hacked and shut down. It was an exchange handling 70% of Bitcoin transactions. Criminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrency in 2021, up 30% from the year before. AlphaBay was a darkweb crypto marketplace that was seized by authorities in 2017. On Feb 14, Heather Morgan was released on bail, but Ilya Lichtenstein remained in detention. Support the show

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Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters

Paris Marx is joined by Benjamin Peters to discuss the proposals for national computer networks in the Soviet Union, the challenges they faced in getting approval, and what lessons they hold for how w...

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Project Cybersyn Shows All Tech is Political w/ Eden Medina

Paris Marx is joined by Eden Medina to discuss Project Cybersyn, a technological system created by Chile’s socialist government in the 1970s to manage production, and what it can teach us about politi...

20 Touko 20211h 2min

How Many Times Has the Internet Already Died? w/ Kevin Driscoll

Paris Marx is joined by Kevin Driscoll to discuss the history of France’s Minitel system, the insights it provides about the modern platform economy, and whether the internet will one day be shut down...

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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara

Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narrat...

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Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us!

Paris Marx is solo this week, providing an update on the podcast, the series of guests planned for May, and what’s coming next for Tech Won’t Save Us!Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective o...

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What’s Next for Amazon Workers? w/ Kim Kelly

Paris Marx is joined by Kim Kelly to discuss what it was like on the ground in Bessemer as workers tried to form a union at Amazon, the mood after the results came in, and where the organizing effort ...

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Vaccine Passports Are Not the Solution w/ Elizabeth Renieris

Paris Marx is joined by Elizabeth Renieris to discuss why we should be concerned about proposals for vaccine passports and how they could create a precedent for a larger rollout of digital identity do...

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Bursting the NFT Bubble w/ Jacob Silverman

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the implications of the recent NFT boom, the libertarian ideology that underpins crypto, and where the hype economy goes from here.Jacob Silverman is...

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