#8: Interview w/ Adrian Chen, the first journalist to write about Silk Road and Bitcoin

Adrian Chen wrote the first article about the darknet marketplace Silk Road and Bitcoin, causing the price of BTC to go from $10 to $14. Adrian discusses:

• why he never has owned a single Bitcoin

• his investigation into Satoshi Nakamoto's identity

• the misperception that Bitcoin is anonymous

*whether crypto has scrambled Jay’s brain

Plus, Aaron shills his bags HARD.

7:30 Bitgrail hacked

7:33 Nano (XRB)

14:03 "The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable" (Adrian Chen, Gawker 2011)

17:33 BitcoinTalk forum

24:41 @AdamBack / Wei Dai

25:16 @JiaTolentino

28:28 @NickSzabo4

31:42 Bitmex

45:02 Tor

48:30 "Suspected AlphaBay founder dies in Bangkok jail after shutdown of online black market" (Washington Post, July 2017)

55:01 Bail Bloc

56:29 The New Inquiry

1:04:53 [Dogecoin (DOGE)] 15

1:05:36 Catbreading