Review: Netflix’s Biggest Heist Ever Documentary Takes Bitcoin Seriously
If the federal government’s story in its successful prosecution is true, when Ilya Lichtenstein hacked the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 and stole over 119,000 customer bitcoins (worth about $72 million at the time), he couldn’t have known he’d committed the most lucrative theft in human history.
But thanks to bitcoin’s peculiar volatility, by the time the feds closed in on Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan (convicted of helping him launder the stolen proceeds), in 2022
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