Investigate crimes involving cryptocurrencies and other blockchain
technologies
Bitcoin has traditionally been the payment system of choice for a
criminal trading on the Dark Web, and now many other blockchain
cryptocurrencies are entering the mainstream as traders are accepting
them from low-end investors putting their money into the market. Worse
still, the blockchain can even be used to hide information and covert
messaging, unknown to most investigators.
Investigating Cryptocurrencies is the first book to help corporate,
law enforcement, and other investigators understand the technical
concepts and the techniques for investigating crimes utilizing the
blockchain and related digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- Understand blockchain and transaction technologies
- Set up and run cryptocurrency accounts
- Build information about specific addresses
- Access raw data on blockchain ledgers
- Identify users of cryptocurrencies
- Extracting cryptocurrency data from live and imaged computers
- Following the money
With nearly $150 billion in cryptocurrency circulating and $3 billion
changing hands daily, crimes committed with or paid for with digital
cash are a serious business. Luckily, Investigating Cryptocurrencies
Forensics shows you how to detect it and, more importantly, stop it in
its tracks.
