Tracers in the Dark

Award-winning author Andy Greenberg's *Tracers in the Dark* chronicles a groundbreaking investigation into the dark heart of cryptocurrency crime. For years, Bitcoin fueled anonymous digital black markets rife with drug dealing, money laundering, and human trafficking, thwarting law enforcement. But Greenberg reveals how a fatal flaw in crypto's "anonymity" allowed an audacious team—including a defiant IRS agent and a Bitcoin-tracing entrepreneur—to crack the blockchain. With unprecedented access, this propulsive, globe-spanning narrative details their thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit, culminating in the largest online narcotics market takedown in internet history and the exposure of vast criminal empires. It's a story of technological one-upmanship, revealing the shocking behavior of criminals who believed they were untouchable. "It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing,” says Michael Lewis.

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