“Our data shows that cryptography-related crime is down significantly this year.” So says Chainalysis, the New York City-based blockchain-analytics company. Of course, the crypto-crime goal posts do tend to keep moving, from quarter to quarter and year to year, thanks in part to would-be crypto moguls like Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, a now bankrupt… Read More >>
Crypto Scams Rob Investors of $575M: FTC
Some day digital fraudsters tricking regular folks out of their hard-earned money by promising a big-bucks payday for only a few hundred (or a few thousand) up front will spend a lot of hours inside courtrooms. And a lot of dollars on high-priced lawyers paid to get them out of their legal jams. Today is… Read More >>
Crypto Crime Hits $14B in 2021: Report
Crypto investors beware. The good news: Crypto-crime is “becoming a smaller and smaller part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.” That’s according to a blog post “preview” of the 2022 “Crypto Crime Report” from Chainalysis, a cloud-based, blockchain data and analysis platform provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City. The not-so-good news: Crypto crime… Read More >>
