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Andy Greenberg, senior writer for WIRED and author of \u201cTracers in the Dark,\u201d takes us inside the world of crypto-tracing crimebusters and voices the ambivalence of Bitcoin \u2013 a cypherpunk creation \u2013 eroding financial privacy. Hear how the longtime crypto scribe got law enforcement and sleuthing firms like Chainalysis to open up about their major wins in taking down darknet kingpins.\n\n\nShow highlights:\n\nwhy Andy thought early on that Bitcoin would enable crypto anarchy\n\nhow blockchain analytics started being used to tackle crime\n\nwhy the IRS Criminal Investigation unit was more open to discussing its techniques\xa0\n\nhow Andy learned many new things about already well-known stories when writing about them for the book\n\nthe methods used to bring down the \u201cbiggest dark-web drug lord\u201d in history\n\ndid AlphaBay\u2019s Alexandre Cazes really kill himself in a Thai prison?\n\nhow researcher Sarah Meiklejohn developed tools to deanonymize Bitcoin\xa0\n\nwhy she\u2019s now uncomfortable that her techniques were adopted by Chainalysis and sold to law enforcement\n\nwhat Andy feels about the importance of privacy\n\nhow Monero is harder to trace than Bitcoin but not untraceable\n\nwhat the impact of zero-knowledge technology will be for blockchain analytics firms\n\nwhether the cypherpunk ethos is dead\n\nwhy the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s identity will never die\n\n\n\n\nThank you to our sponsors!\n\nCrypto.com\n\nFTSE\n\nHalborn\n\nNYU\n\n\nGuest\nAndy Greenberg, senior writer for WIRED and author of \u201cTracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency\u201d\n\nTwitter\n\nWritings for WIRED\n\nTracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency\n\nLinks:\n\nWIRED:\n\nThe Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 1: The Shadow\n\nThe Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91\n\nThe Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 3: Alpha Male\xa0\n\nDe-Anonymization in Bitcoin with Sarah Meiklejohn | a16z crypto research talks\n\n\nWikipedia: Welcome to Video case\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices