Stories by Timothy Lloyd
Leaked police docs reveal crypto’s role in dark web bioweapons trade
A leaked INTERPOL manual covering the trade in chemical and biological weapons on the dark web includes advice for transacting in and seizing cryptocurrencies. The cover of INTERPOL's "Investigating Biological and Chemical Terrorism on the Darknet" manual (Source: INTERPOL) The manual, titled ‘Investigating Biological and Chemical Terrorism on the Darknet’, coaches law enforcement on best practices for infiltrating the dark web’s contrabandist subcultures. As well as advising investigators on ho...
Blueleaks: How the FBI tracks Bitcoin laundering on the dark web
A report prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Washington field office and exposed in the 270GB ‘Blueleaks’ data dump reveals how the FBI has tracked dark web criminals laundering dirty Bitcoin by converting it into the privacy coin Monero. The leaked FBI document details three cases in which the Panamanian 'instant' crypto exchange MorphToken was "likely" used by bad actors to launder illicit-origin Bitcoin by converting it into Monero; two of the darknet markets (DNMs) named includ...
$10 billion stablecoin boom as Bitcoin halving nears
A stablecoin boom that’s propelled their total market cap past $9.5 billion this year could signal bullish Bitcoin sentiment ahead of its imminent halving, experts told Decrypt. According to crypto data-tracker DAppTotal, the total market cap for stablecoins topped $9.5 billion last month, with Tether (USDT), the oldest, largest, and most widely adopted stablecoin, minting over a billion dollars in April alone. Investors “hoard” stablecoins pre-halving Ganesh Natraj, an assistant professor of fi...
