With Jared Der-Yeghiayan, Director of Investigations at OKX and the former Homeland Security special agent who led the investigation that brought down the Silk Road.
In this episode, we discuss:
• How one pill in the letter mail opened the Silk Road investigation
• Tracing Bitcoin transactions years before blockchain analytics tools existed
• What it took to go undercover as a Silk Road administrator
• How interagency rivalry almost collapsed the case
• Why the defense argument that Silk Road was a victimless crime did not hold
• The Ross Ulbricht pardon, and how the lead investigator responded to it
• What the case set in motion for crypto compliance and investigations today