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<p>Imagine this: invisible robbers break into a bank and steal massive sacks of cash, but instead of running away with it they set their haul on the front stoop of the bank in a glass case. Everyone can see the money, but only the robbers can get to it. That’s how IRS Special Agent Chris Janczewski describes the 2016 Bitfinex heist – when mystery hackers made out with over $70 million in Bitcoin. By 2020, their loot had ballooned to over $4 billion. With only digital footprints to follow, federal agents tracked the criminals through the blockchain, across the dark web, and up the service elevator of a posh Manhattan apartment building in a sleuthing story that ends at the Smithsonian. </p><p>The renovated The Value of Money exhibition will be opening at the National Museum of American History in November 2024. Check it out in person or online!</p><p><strong>Guests:</strong></p><p><strong>Ellen Feingold</strong>, curator of the <a href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/about/departments/w...