The $285 million hack of Drift took began in person at a conference … and unfolded like a spy novel. Multiple in-person meetings, $1 million deposited, professional histories and reputations. It was long con based on what Pyongyang does best: setting up Potemkin villages. Amanda Wick, Head of Americas at VerifyVASP and Michael Lewellen, Head of Solutions Engineering at Turnkey, discuss how it happened and why it has every crypto project reviewing all their relationships. Plus: they cover the fact that seemingly inexplicable reasons Circle didn’t act in the six hours when the stablecoin issuer could have frozen the funds of the hackers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices