A book excerpt examines how a law enforcement operation to take down the largest child sex abuse website, using Chainalysis tools, showed bitcoin was traceable
spoiler alert—the good guys win. An @a_greenberg special, and an education in how technology sometimes does the opposite of what it was expected to. https://www.wired.com/... Miko Matsumura / @mikojava : Here's another piece of evidence that bitcoin isn't able to hide crime and in fact helps law enforcement stop crimes. How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site https://www.wired.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Andy's story (an excerpt for his upcoming book: https://t.co/...) is an incredible and detailed read on how the IRS took down the site by conducting, essentially, a financial investigation by tracing the cryptocurrency used on the site. https://www.wired.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : 5 years ago, a hacker group told me they uncovered & hacked into a dark web child sex abuse site. I couldn't verify the claims, legally anyway, so I told the feds and moved on with my life. @a_greenberg has the inside story of the site's takedown. https://www.wired.com/... Lara Putnam / @lara_putnam : The new Wired piece by @a_greenberg on the use of cryptocurrency tracing to find+prosecute abusers creating CSAM is grimly fascinating. What most sticks with me tho is how small the number ultimately captured even in this biggest-ever & heroic effort were https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/... David Frum / @davidfrum : Bad news for criminals and those who market to them: Bitcoin and other digital currencies are not nearly so secret as they supposed. A fascinating excerpt from an important new book ... https://www.wired.com/... Andy Greenberg / @a_greenberg : Since 2020, I've been writing a book on how Bitcoin, once said to be untraceable, turned out to be the opposite. Today we're releasing an early, 15,000-word excerpt: Inside the crypto tracing case that took down the largest known child sex abuse site ever. https://www.wired.com/... See also Mediagazer
Warning: this story can be hard to read. You may need breaks. It's also absolutely gripping, and—spoiler alert—the good guys win. An @a_greenberg special, and an education in how technology sometimes does the opposite of what it was expected to. https://www.wired.com/...
Another significant datapoint that disproves the false narrative around crypto being used by criminals to avoid “well regulated” rails. The truth is that our legacy infrastructure is terrible at preventing and catching crime and money laundering https://www.wired.com/...
“The HSI agent wasn't caught in the Welcome to Video dragnet because IRS agents had violated his privacy. He was caught, the judges concluded, because he had mistakenly believed his Bitcoin transactions to have ever been private in the first place.” https://www.wired.com/...
Here's another piece of evidence that bitcoin isn't able to hide crime and in fact helps law enforcement stop crimes. How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site https://www.wired.com/...
Andy's story (an excerpt for his upcoming book: https://t.co/...) is an incredible and detailed read on how the IRS took down the site by conducting, essentially, a financial investigation by tracing the cryptocurrency used on the site. https://www.wired.com/...
5 years ago, a hacker group told me they uncovered & hacked into a dark web child sex abuse site. I couldn't verify the claims, legally anyway, so I told the feds and moved on with my life. @a_greenberg has the inside story of the site's takedown. https://www.wired.com/...
The new Wired piece by @a_greenberg on the use of cryptocurrency tracing to find+prosecute abusers creating CSAM is grimly fascinating. What most sticks with me tho is how small the number ultimately captured even in this biggest-ever & heroic effort were https://www.wired.com/..…
Bad news for criminals and those who market to them: Bitcoin and other digital currencies are not nearly so secret as they supposed. A fascinating excerpt from an important new book ... https://www.wired.com/...
Since 2020, I've been writing a book on how Bitcoin, once said to be untraceable, turned out to be the opposite. Today we're releasing an early, 15,000-word excerpt: Inside the crypto tracing case that took down the largest known child sex abuse site ever. https://www.wired.com/.…