Tracers in the dark : the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency

Greenberg, Andy, author.

First edition.

Book

New York : Doubleday, [2022]

©2022

xi, 367 pages ; 24 cm

"A propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, taking once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence and holding them up to the light. Black markets have always thrived in the shadows of society. Increasingly, these enterprises-drug dealing, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorist funding-have found their shadows online. Digital crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. At the heart of their massive conspiracies: cryptocurrency"-- Provided by publisher.

Computer crimes.

Commercial crimes.

Cryptocurrencies.

Transnational crime.

Prologue: Proof of concept -- Part I Men with no names. Eladio Guzman Fuentes -- Nob -- The auditor -- Cryptoanarchy -- Silk road -- The dread pirate -- The puzzle -- Men with no names -- Cyber narc -- Glen Park -- The double agent -- Receipts -- FrenchMaid, DeathFromAbove -- The trial -- Part II Tracer for hire. Collapse -- Dirty money -- Noise -- The second agent -- A hole in the vault -- BTC-e -- WME -- Vinnik -- Consolation prizes -- Part III AlphaBay. Alpha02 -- The tip -- Cazes -- Thailand -- Tunafish -- Rawmeo -- Hansa -- Takeover -- "Advanced analysis" -- The Athenee -- Takedown -- Captivity -- Postmortem -- The trap -- Aftermath -- Suvarnabhumi Airport -- Part IV Welcome to video. Five characters -- "Scrach Videos" -- Octopus -- Test cases -- Seoul -- The net -- Ripples -- Part V The next round. Open season -- Limits -- Gray zones -- Rumker -- Epilogue.

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