![]() Sooner or later, because it’s a numbers game, it seems somebody at NiceHash inadvertently clicked on the e-mail, opened the link, opened the attachment, and got themselves infected. Around this time, lots of phishing e-mails were targeting lots of people at lots of cryptocurrency businesses. Employees at NiceHash start to get phishing e-mails sent to them, which is the classic way in, of course. It would just keep a small fee and then issue the payouts to all the miners. The service was one of the most popular Bitcoin mining pools in 2017, which means it made a lot of money. So, with NiceHash, all these Bitcoin miners pool their resources together to make more money for mining. Mining Bitcoin by yourself is hard to get any rewards, but if you pool your resources with other miners, you get a much bigger chance of making some money from it. JACK: I’ve actually used this service before it’s a Bitcoin mining pool and it’s based out of Slovenia. GEOFF: NiceHash is a cryptocurrency business. So, I wanted to bring him in here to talk about what he’s been looking into. JACK: Geoff is a fantastic investigative journalist doing a lot of work for the BBC, and he’s been tracking a particular story for a while now, and I’m fascinated with it. GEOFF: So, I’m Geoff White and I’m an author and investigative journalist. JACK:Ělright, so, who are you and what do you do? ![]() (INTRO): These are true stories from the dark side of the internet. But even if it was, does it sound interesting if Fast and the Furious 27 was all about who could pull off the best NFT scam? Or what if Reservoir Dogs was remade and instead of stealing jewelry, they tried to steal the private key to someone’s Dogecoin wallet Reservoir Doge? Or what if there was a Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking ICO Scams? I don’t know, maybe this is the future of heist films because art imitates life, and cryptocurrency heists are where the biggest thieves are playing today. It was a thrill to watch, but I wonder if the great heist films are coming to an end, because the largest robberies are all done over computers now, and it’s just not visually stimulating to watch someone sit at a computer pushing buttons, transferring money from one account to another. JACK: Ocean’s Eleven was a cool movie, an elaborately-planned casino heist where the thieves were trying to steal millions of dollars in cash by bypassing all kinds of physical security and tricking the guards.
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