#and 'tracers in the dark the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency' by andy greenberg

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Love that the fiction novel I'm currently reading just had a character say how much he likes bitcoin for crime because it's virtually impossible to track, while the nonfiction audiobook i am also working through atm is literally about how tracking bitcoin is actually easier than most people think

[xipiti]

JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for the Internet.

Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s mysterious and unidentifiable inventor, had stated in an email introducing Bitcoin that “participants can be anonymous.” And the Silk Road dark-web drug market seemed like living proof of that potential, enabling the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drugs and other contraband for bitcoin while flaunting its impunity from law enforcement.

This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system. That discovery would upend the world of cybercrime. Bitcoin tracing would, over the next few years, solve the mystery of the theft of a half-billion dollar stash of bitcoins from the world’s first crypto exchange, help enable the biggest dark-web drug market takedown in history, lead to the arrest of hundreds of pedophiles around the world in the bust of the dark web’s largest child sexual abuse video site, and result in the first-, second-, and third-biggest law enforcement monetary seizures in the history of the US Justice Department.

That 180-degree flip in the world’s understanding of cryptocurrency’s privacy properties, and the epic game of cat-and-mouse that followed, is the larger saga that unfolds in the book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out this week in paperback.

All of it began with the work of a young, puzzle-loving mathematician named Sarah Meiklejohn, the first researcher to pull out traceable patterns in the apparent noise of Bitcoin’s blockchain. This excerpt from Tracers in the Dark reveals how Meiklejohn came to the discoveries that would launch that new era of crypto criminal justice.

Excerpt is at the link. This is a fascinating read.

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Tigran Gambaryan

一段Tigran Gambaryan在尼日利亚法庭上暴躁抱怨的视频在网上流传，这是谁？ 他是"Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency"一书的主人公，这本书的作者是Wired杂志记者Andy Greenberg，该书详细讲述了Gambaryan身为IRS探员将种种恶人绳之以法的故事，这些恶人包括在暗网毒品网站“丝绸之路”一案中黑化的政府探员，“丝绸之路”之后最大暗网毒品市场“阿尔法湾”的经营者等。

此书极为适合改编成好莱坞个人英雄主义的大片，如果此人一直在美国政府工作，他的形象几乎完美——他是少数族裔，通过自己的努力捍卫着美国的司法和民主制度。

在书的最后，作者透露，Gambaryan去了世界最大的加密货币交易所币安工作。这是他命运的转折点，可以想像，币安为了合规，会付给这样一名人才多少钱，而正是这样的决定，最终我们看到了一位拄着拐杖，想要一个轮椅都无法得到满足，在尼日利亚法庭上大喊着F*ck的可怜人。

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How a Researcher Proved Bitcoin's Lack of Anonymity

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency touted as anonymous and private, was revealed to be quite the opposite. The discovery that Bitcoin's blockchain actually allowed for tracing and identifying users shattered the crypto-anarchist ideal and marked the beginning of a game of cat-and-mouse between law enforcement and cybercriminals. The breakthrough came from the work of mathematician Sarah Meiklejohn, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

Meiklejohn's pioneering research involved making hundreds of transactions with bitcoin, documenting each one and scrutinizing the public record of payments on the blockchain. She meticulously combed through millions of Bitcoin transactions to demonstrate that they could be traced, contrary to popular belief. Her findings led to significant developments in solving high-profile cases such as the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bitcoins, the takedown of dark-web drug markets, and the arrest of pedophiles involved in child sexual abuse video sites.

This story is chronicled in the book "Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency." Meiklejohn's groundbreaking work reshaped our understanding of cryptocurrency's privacy properties and showcased the potential for transparency in the digital financial system. It also highlighted the pivotal role of Bitcoin tracing in combating cybercrime.

Read more about the original article here.

🔍bitcoin 🔒privacy 🕵️‍♀️cybercrime 📚book

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Andy Greenberg Is Publishing a New Book on BTC's Traceability

Andy Greenberg – a technology journalist – has a new book coming out called “Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.” Andy Greenberg Has a New BTC Book Coming Out The book details the early 2021 incident in which the Colonial Pipeline was hacked by cyberthieves who demanded bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in exchange for its release. The Department of…

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‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions. The first story recounted is that of a crooked…

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‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions. The first story recounted is that of a crooked…

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‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions. The first story recounted is that of a crooked…

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‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions. The first story recounted is that of a crooked…

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‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

‘Tracers in the Dark’ presents a fun crime story — and lesson in privacy

On its surface, Andy Greenburg’s new book, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, is a standard crime story. Fans of true crime podcasts will enjoy the crypto version and get a seat in the Federal Bureau of Investigation van as United States federal agents track down criminals through their crypto transactions. The first story recounted is that of a crooked…

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Andy Greenwald on His New Book, Crypto Crime and FTX

Andy Greenwald on His New Book, Crypto Crime and FTX

To read journalist Andy Greenwald’s new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency is to be immersed in a particular corner of crime and punishment. Greenwald, who’s been writing about hackers, cryptocurrency and the dark web for years, expertly chronicles the efforts of law enforcement to use information on the blockchain to track down suspects in a host of…

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This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system. That discovery would upend the world of cybercrime. Bitcoin tracing would, over the next few years, solve the mystery of the theft of a half-billion dollar stash of bitcoins from the world’s first crypto exchange, help enable the biggest dark-web drug market takedown in history, lead to the arrest of hundreds of pedophiles around the world in the bust of the dark web’s largest child sexual abuse video site, and result in the first-, second-, and third-biggest law enforcement monetary seizures in the history of the US Justice Department. That 180-degree flip in the world’s understanding of cryptocurrency’s privacy properties, and the epic game of cat-and-mouse that followed, is the larger saga that unfolds in the book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out this week in paperback. All of it began when a young, puzzle-loving mathematician named Sarah Meiklejohn started to pull out traceable patterns in the apparent noise of Bitcoin’s blockchain.. This excerpt from Tracers in the Dark reveals how Meiklejohn came to the discoveries that would launch that new era of crypto criminal justice.

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 From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. "A gripping, stranger-than-fiction tale of how a small team of geeks and federal agents cracked what was once thought to be untraceable cryptocurrency." --Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and WatergateOver the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely--whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking--than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in currencies with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers, these black marketeers have sought to rob law enforcement of their chief method of cracking down on