You probably saw the headlines that a married couple was arrested for a money-laundering scheme involving billions of dollars of cryptocurrency. To really understand the full cuckoo-bananas-nature of this story, we’re going to need to go back to the beginning— the very beginning; the origin story of crypto itself. In each episode this week, Nicole is going to take us through the money trail, leading us to Friday’s episode, where we get to these Bitcoin bozos once and for all.

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