Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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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