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SUMMARY:En route to more perfect crimes? On Bitcoin and other cryptocurre
 ncies’ anonymity and their use by offenders 
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DESCRIPTION:CCCJ Seminar Series 2017/2018\nIllicit markets\, whether onli
 ne or offline\, bring together offenders looking to buy and sell goods (
 ex. illicit drugs\, endangered species\, stolen financial information) a
 nd services (ex. hacking services\, money laundering). One of the bigges
 t challenge for illicit market participants is figuring out how to recei
 ve payments anonymously for the goods and services they provide. This ch
 allenge appeared to be solved when Bitcoin\, the first cryptocurrency\, 
 launched in 2009. While marginal for years\, Bitcoin’s use and value has
  grown over the past years to a point where billions of dollars worth of
  bitcoins are exchanged everyday. Bitcoin\, like other cryptocurrencies\
 , promised to offer irreversible\, instantaneous and anonymous transacti
 ons that are outside of the scope of the monitoring by financial institu
 tions. This seminar will discuss the limits of anonymity of cryptocurren
 cies like Bitcoin and show how intelligence can be gathered on offenders
  who have not adopted the best practices when handling their cryptocurre
 ncy. This will be achieved through a presentation and case-study of BitC
 luster\, a bitcoin deanonymizing tool which can help track the flows of 
 money across the bitcoin network. The case study will involve an online 
 illicit market that was closed several years ago. Our results show that 
 using Bitcoin does not provide all the anonymity offenders may want and 
 need and introduce other alternatives to the Bitcoin that could change h
 ow offenders operate\, enabling them to achieve so-called perfect crimes
  that leave no trace behind.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:5.210\, University Place\, Manchester
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