In this episode, Geoff White (https://x.com/geoffwhite247) tells us what happened to Axie Infinity and Tornado cash. It’s a digital heist of epic proportions that changes everything.This story comes from part of Geoff’s book “Rinsed” which goes into the world of money laundering. Get yours here https://amzn.to/3VJs7pb.
All right, lights red.
We're recording.
Hey, Tortoni, you're looking great today.
Still writing, I see.
See, here in my studio, which is just my closet, I have a picture on the wall made by Edward Manet.
And it's a picture of a fine looking gentleman sitting at a table, writing something down.
I call him Tortoni, but that's not his name.
This picture has captured my imagination and curiosity for countless hours.
I stare into it and I just fall into an abyss.
But the thing about this picture is that it's not the content or even who made it.
It's that this picture was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum back in 1990, and it's never been recovered.
And I don't have the original, I just have a print of it.
But the thieves didn't just steal this picture.
They took a bunch of others, too.
And this was the.
The biggest single heist of all time.
They estimated that the art that was stolen is worth $500 million, and it still remains unsolved.
I'm looking at this picture on my wall right now.
There's a $10 million reward for it, yet mine I just got from my printer for like five cents.
And it's always been weird to me how art has just so much value now.