To catch a crypto-criminal

Greenberg deftly assembles a rogues' gallery of characters who fell prey to this false sense of invulnerability: drug marketers, thick-necked federal agents, globe-trotting libertarians

TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

Author: Andy Greenberg

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages: 366

Price: $32.50

Childhood discussions of morality often devolve to a single question: What might you do if you knew that no one would ever — ever — find out? In the Bitcoin age, a lot of people have tried to test that scenario, in the belief that they could hide under a digital invisibility cloak. They were, as Andy Greenberg details, badly misinformed.
 

Greenberg, a writer who covers, among other things, hackers, surveillance and the seamier precincts of the internet for Wired, deftly