In the course of a decade as a special agent with the US Internal Revenue Service , Tigran Gambaryan has seen them all.
Blockchain investigation was a new field, for which the tools were initially few and rudimentary. At the same time, it was familiar terrain. “I was a financial investigator. My thing had always been ‘Follow the money,’” Gambaryan says. Following that mantra he would work his way to the weak link in a chain of transactions; often, that was an account with a big cryptocurrency exchange, which in some cases could help him ID the suspect.
Until 2021, Bisbee was a cryptocurrency specialist for the Drug Enforcement Administration. But after helping the DEA grok blockchain research—and leveraging her capabilities to crack cases—Bisbee says her work started feeling “a little bit stagnant.” The DEA was focused on drug crime, but she knew that crypto chicanery extended well beyond that sphere.
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