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Human-Trafficking Expert Urges US Congress to Regulate Crypto Miners
3.9.2019
A former U.S. Treasury official urged Congress to regulate cryptocurrency miners in order to fight human trafficking
UN Official: Crypto Makes Policing Child Trafficking ‘Exceptionally Difficult’
30.8.2019
Cryptocurrencies provide a "new layer of secrecy that favors the criminals," said a top-ranking staffer of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime
The White House Just Blamed Bitcoin for America’s Opiate Crisis
24.8.2019
The opioid epidemic is the new devil Bitcoin is being blamed for inflaming, to be added to the already long list of heinous crimes crypto is supposedly responsible for, like terrorism, money laundering, and trafficking. While it’s painfully clear that the U.S. dollar is a much more common...
Big Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Crimes
13.8.2019
Unlike the unfounded narrative that cryptocurrency enables crime, big banks are more than happy to serve unsavory clients if it is lucrative enough for them. The latest example of this is a report that Jeffrey Epstein was apparently using his bank accounts to fund sex trafficking and possibly other...
California Couple to Forfeit Cryptocurrency Riches After Drug Bust
7.8.2019
The couple must forfeit an undisclosed sum of bitcoin and bitcoin cash they acquired from selling illicit goods on a dark web marketplace
Worldwide Whiplash! Human Traffickers Misuse Bitcoin to Hide their Hideous Crime
30.7.2019
We live in a modern world, with technology taking over almost all the aspects of our lives. Technology offers growth, comfort, and efficiency. On the one hand, where the blockchain technology offers us so many revolutionary ways to outgrow our previous successes while the same potential gets...
Money Laundering Fines Worth Billions Help Bankers Avoid Prosecution and Unpleasant Labels
18.7.2019
The recent seizure of a cargo ship owned by JP Morgan, a vessel loaded with 20 tons of cocaine according to latest accounts, highlighted the risks of banks’ involvement in illicit activities, inadvertent or otherwise. And although U.S. authorities released the MSC Gayane after the owner,...
Flowery V20 Talk and Government Terror: Why Darknet Crime Is the Least of Our Worries
1.7.2019
Governments and central banking regulatory bodies continue to express concern about crypto being used for criminal purposes and terror. The terror campaigns of these very same governments continue unabated, however. In the wake of the V20 summit it might seem that lawmakers actually care about...
Drug Abuse and Cryptocurrencies – The Dark Side
26.6.2019
As the world observes the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, we hereby attempt to analyze the correlation between the crypto space and illicit drugs and how it has been affecting people around the globe. In its 10 years of existence, Bitcoin has found thousands of...