The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime
We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rights to privacy and the requirements for consent, and the rights of society to protect itself. Within this world, there is an ever-increasing requirement to protect the identities involved within financial transactions, but this...
| Published in: | The Journal of The British Blockchain Association |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The British Blockchain Association
2018-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-1-2-(8)2018 |
| Summary: | We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rights to privacy and the requirements for consent, and the rights of society to protect itself. Within this world, there is an ever-increasing requirement to protect the identities involved within financial transactions, but this makes things increasingly difficult for law enforcement agencies, especially in terms of financial fraud and money laundering. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in terms of the methods of privacy that are being used within cryptocurrency transactions, and in the challenges that law enforcement face. |
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| ISSN: | 2516-3949 2516-3957 |