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Research | "2021 Cryptocurrency Crime Report" Has Been Reported

Date:2021-12-09 author:

This report is supplemented and revised based on a large amount of data provided by Chainalysis, an American blockchain analysis agency.This third-party analysis agency serving government agencies and virtual currency companies has a very strong "American perspective",which is mainly reflected in data interpretation, analysis, and case selection.


In fact, U.S.A attitudes toward virtual currencies remain unclear, particularly in the long-running divergence between Wall Street and U.S.A regulators,businessmen headed by Musk and Zuckerberg are keen on the virtual currency market, while supervision is vacillating between the fear of the faltering status of legal currency and the temptation of huge benefits.


"Money laundering" is the main purpose of cryptocurrency crimes.


Current criminals can no longer simply send cryptocurrencies to exchanges for realize the amount of storage, so that they are highly dependent on some specific service providers to launder money. Some of which are specialized in money laundering, while others are reduced to money laundering tools due to compliance issues.


The number of crimes of ransomware has soared in 2020,or even an "outbreak," however , due to the reproducibility of virus strains, there may not be as many people behind it as they appear.


The question is, what is compliance for newcomers to the dark web market?

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