Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

by Andy Greenberg

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Cryptocurrency was never as anonymous as the criminals using it believed. Andy Greenberg follows the investigators who learned to trace blockchain transactions, IRS criminal investigator Tigran Gambaryan among them, and shows you how tracing plus international cooperation brought down dark-web markets like Silk Road, run by Dread Pirate Roberts, AlphaBay and Hansa.

Core ideas
  • The trail stays: Crypto transactions can be de-anonymized, so people who believed they were untraceable left a record investigators could follow.
  • An unlikely hunter: Gambaryan moved from conventional IRS cases into cryptocurrency crime, and his path carries a story that mixes crime narrative with technical explanation.
  • Chance encounters: In one episode a fugitive, by coincidence, sits down beside the agents hunting him at their hotel.
Published2022
Pages367
ISBN9780385548106
ReadJun 2023

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