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From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. "I love the book... It reads like a thriller... These stories are amazing." (Michael Lewis)
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely--whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking--than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in currencies with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers, these black marketeers have sought to rob law enforcement of their chief method of cracking down on illicit finance: following the money.
But what if the centerpiece of this dark economy held a secret, fatal flaw? What if their currency wasn't so cryptic after all? An investigator using the right mixture of technical wizardry, financial forensics, and old-fashioned persistence could uncover an entire world of wrongdoing.
Tracers in the Dark is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld. The result is a thrilling, globe-spanning story of dirty cops, drug bazaars, trafficking rings, and the biggest takedown of an online narcotics market in the history of the Internet.
Utterly of our time, Tracers in the Dark is a cat-and-mouse story and a tale of a technological one-upmanship. Filled with canny maneuvering and shocking twists, it answers a provocative question: How would some of the world's most brazen criminals behave if they were sure they could never get caught?
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780385548090
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 11-15-2022
Pages: 384
Product Dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.40(d)
About the Author
Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for Wired magazine. He's written about hackers, cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy for more than 15 years, and is the author of three books: Tracers in the Dark, Sandworm, and This Machine Kills Secrets. Tracers in the Dark and Sandworm, along with excerpts of the books published in Wired, have won several honors including two Gerald Loeb awards for distinguished business and financial reporting. This Machine Kills Secrets was named by The Verge as one of the top ten greatest tech books of all time. Greenberg lives in Brooklyn with his wife, documentary filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall.
Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii Prologue Proof of Concept 3 Part 1 Men with No Names Chapter 1 Eladio Guzman Fuentes 9Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Nob 20
Chapter 3 The Auditor 27
Chapter 4 Cryptoanarchy 37
Chapter 5 Silk Road 44
Chapter 6 The Dread Pirate 51
Chapter 7 The Puzzle 61
Chapter 8 Men with No Names 73
Chapter 9 Cyber Narc 87
Chapter 10 Glen Park 97
Chapter 11 The Double Agent 102
Chapter 12 Receipts 112
Chapter 13 FrenchMaid, DeathFromAbove 121
Chapter 14 The Trial 129
Part II Tracer for Hire
Chapter 15 Collapse 139
Chapter 16 Dirty Money 152
Chapter 17 Noise 158
Chapter 18 The Second Agent 169
Chapter 19 A Hole in the Vault 180
Chapter 20 BTC-e 187
Chapter 21 WME 195
Chapter 22 Vinnik 202
Chapter 23 Consolation Prizes 208
Part III Alphabay
Chapter 24 Alpha02 219
Chapter 25 The Tip 230
Chapter 26 Gazes 239
Chapter 27 Thailand 250
Chapter 28 Tunaflsh 260
Chapter 29 Rawmeo 273
Chapter 30 Hansa 287
Chapter 31 Takeover 300
Chapter 32 "Advanced Analysis" 310
Chapter 33 The Athenee 318
Chapter 34 Takedown 324
Chapter 35 Captivity 338
Chapter 36 Postmortem 349
Chapter 37 The Trap 357
Chapter 38 Aftermath 365
Chapter 39 Suvarnabhumi Airport 374
Part IV Welcome to Video
Chapter 40 Five Characters 379
Chapter 41 "Serach Videos" 390
Chapter 42 Octopus 399
Chapter 43 Test Cases 408
Chapter 44 Seoul 420
Chapter 45 The Net 427
Chapter 46 Ripples 435
Part V The Next Round
Chapter 47 Open Season 445
Chapter 48 Limits 459
Chapter 49 Gray Zones 474
Chapter 50 Rumker 489
Epilogue 499
Acknowledgments 513
Source Notes 517
Notes 519
Index 555
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