242 - Bitcoin, Bali & Bad Decisions

This week feels less like a crypto podcast... and more like the script of a Netflix crime series.

👉🏽 A night out in Bali ends with an Australian tourist allegedly losing $14,000 in crypto after handing over his unlocked phone to add someone on Instagram. But the story takes an extraordinary twist when it turns out the victim himself has been accused of some of crypto's most notorious scams.

👉🏽 Then we farewell one of the industry's true pioneers. BitMEX, the exchange that invented perpetual futures, changed crypto trading forever, survived regulators, billion-dollar lawsuits and presidential pardons... is finally shutting its doors after 11 remarkable years.

👉🏽 And finally, North Korea has done something nobody saw coming. The regime has reportedly arrested its own former military hackers after they allegedly stole from North Korea's own banks and laundered the money through cryptocurrency.

Let's get into it 🚀

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TIMESTAMPS

1:58 Bali, beach club and a drained crypto wallet!

5:20 BitMEX closes its doors

10:20 North Korea plot twist

12:30 Short, sharp news bites

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