Bitfinex Hackers' Stolen $72M in Crypto Ballooned to $8.4B Peak
Nick Bilton · We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets · Feb 26, 2025 · at 1:12:26
Investigative journalist Nick Bilton discusses his Netflix documentary about Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the couple behind the 2016 Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange hack.
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“They stole seventy two million dollars in crypto and then were trying to launder it, and every, they were the only two people on the entire internet who wanted the price of bitcoin to go down. And they had, every time they were trying to launder it would double, and double, and to the point that it was at one point at its peak was worth 8.4 billion dollars”
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