Saturday Night Movie Recommendation: ‘Biggest Heist Ever’ on Netflix.
Meet Heather Morgan aka Razzlekhan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein, better known as Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde.
They were involved in one of the largest Bitcoin heists in history. He carried out the hack, she helped launder the funds. What followed was years spent trying to wash billions through thousands of transactions, convinced they were genius criminals staying one step ahead, while leaving a perfectly traceable trail.
Some say they were masterminds, others say a lot did not quite stack up.
After their New York apartment was raided, investigators seized their electronic equipment along with a bag of burner phones helpfully labelled “burner phones”, plus stacks of cash and foreign currency. Despite having access to other passports, they stayed in New York and kept posting increasingly bizarre videos online until their arrest a month later.
One investigator said he couldn’t tell if watching those videos was the best or worst part of his day.
Coffeezilla pretty much nailed it:
“Heather Morgan should be incarcerated for at least 25 years, purely on the basis of being unbearably cringe.”
They tried to outsmart an immutable public ledger, and this story makes clear why Bitcoin is not good for criminals.
If you watch one documentary this year, make it this one. It’s equally informative, hilarious, jaw dropping and the videos are so bad they’re good....
Watch it here: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81600031
Meet Heather Morgan aka Razzlekhan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein, better known as Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde.
They were involved in one of the largest Bitcoin heists in history. He carried out the hack, she helped launder the funds. What followed was years spent trying to wash billions through thousands of transactions, convinced they were genius criminals staying one step ahead, while leaving a perfectly traceable trail.
Some say they were masterminds, others say a lot did not quite stack up.
After their New York apartment was raided, investigators seized their electronic equipment along with a bag of burner phones helpfully labelled “burner phones”, plus stacks of cash and foreign currency. Despite having access to other passports, they stayed in New York and kept posting increasingly bizarre videos online until their arrest a month later.
One investigator said he couldn’t tell if watching those videos was the best or worst part of his day.
Coffeezilla pretty much nailed it:
“Heather Morgan should be incarcerated for at least 25 years, purely on the basis of being unbearably cringe.”
They tried to outsmart an immutable public ledger, and this story makes clear why Bitcoin is not good for criminals.
If you watch one documentary this year, make it this one. It’s equally informative, hilarious, jaw dropping and the videos are so bad they’re good....
Watch it here: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81600031
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