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Podcast: Raoul Pal: The Journey Man
Episode: Does Crypto Have a Crime Problem?
Description: In its mid-year update, popular blockchain data company Chainalysis reported that $1.9 billion was lost to hacks and theft through the first six months of 2022, up from $1.2 billion through the same point in 2021. But other illicit activity β scams and darknet markets β declined compared to last year. How much fear does βcrypto crimeβ create around the digital asset economy? Is it enough to impede widespread adoption? Also, the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming after the initial coin offering from a blockchain project in 2017; so, why now? And there finally may be a solution to the recurring outages on the Solana network...