Ari Redbord

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But what's interesting is you just watch the sort of progress of this.

And I mentioned, you know, we've looked back at North Korea.

You know, people ask me all the time, hey, how did you get into crypto, right?

And I wish I had the better origin story where I like, you know, bought in 2011 or whatever.

You know, I would be driving around in my Lambo like everybody else.

But for me, it was actually North Korea.

I was a national security product prosecutor at the U.S.

attorney's office in D.C.

And we started to look at money laundering cases involving North Korea.

And we started to see Bitcoin in those cases.

And this was way before these sort of really, you know, attacks at scale, certainly before DeFi.

And I said to myself, wow, this is really cool technology where you can move funds cross border at the speed of the Internet.

and tried to start to understand like, wait, wow, how could we use this for good?

But also at the same time, realizing this is really a technology we need to keep out of the hands of bad actors.

So North Korea has really been early here, but you're absolutely right.

It's born out of necessity.

We just put out a report, I think last week, that said six billion over the last, you know, five years, something around that.

So that becomes the challenge.

And for TRM, at least the most interesting piece of the puzzle, what we're focused on, right?

So the attack happens and we can get into maybe how we can stop those at some level.

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