Although not a new crime, romance scams like pig butchering, have been hitting the trad media and crypto news headlines for the last few months. This has been partly driven by documentaries such as the hit Netflix show The Tinder Swindler and also due to brave victims coming forward to…

Seeing Whether you’re entering into Decentraland through your laptop, putting on your Oculus Rift VR headset to explore Horizon Worlds or using your mobile to augment the world around you via Rift, the visual aspect of the metaverse is critical to your experience. It’s what helps bring the immersion and creativity…

The fiat global insurance market was noted to be almost $6trillion in 2022 and is expected to rise to over $8trillion by 2026: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1192960/forecast-global-insurance-market/ and according to the ABI, in the UK alone, there were £47.2m in claims processed each day for motor and property insurance in 2020, and £250m…

Last June I wrote a report titled “The Future of Financial Crime in the Metaverse” https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse where I outlined the key components of a virtual world and delved into the current financial crimes playing out. …

Towards the end of last week the news broke that Kraken was shutting down its staking-as-a-service business and paying a $30million fine to the SEC. Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong took to Twitter to outline his position: “We will keep fighting for economic freedom (our mission at Coinbase). Some days being…

On Feb 23rd 2022 developer Casey Rodarmor sent his proposal for Bitcoin Ordinals to the dev mailing list. In brief the idea is that every newly mined satoshi ( and there are currently 6.25BTC mined every ~10mins) is sequentially ordered. Therefore each satoshi will have an ordinal number between 0…

If you’ve followed my Friday Crypto Crime posts for a while then you’ll have read my breakdown of how the fake rigged crypto casino scam works, what instagram scammers are doing in the crypto space (and even my hunt for the mysterious scammer “Sharon”), how Telegram crypto charge-back shopping scams…

A week ago rock metal band Metallica dropped their new song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-7rWKnVVo It’s not my vibe (I got to about 33secs before I had to switch back to my DnB) but what did catch my eye was how quickly the crypto criminals jumped on this announcement and created a giveaway…

Back in 2017 one of the first LinkedIn articles I wrote was on Quantum Computing and the potential impacts for the finance industry (I know, I’ve been a nerd for a while 🤓 ). Whilst a LOT has happened across the quantum field in the 5 years, it’s still…