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Tara Annison
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3 days ago

Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District

Decentraland has 90,601 parcels of land; a mixture of developments and greenfield spaces yet to be built on. There are 9 plazas (the green areas of the map) which are owned by the Decentraland Foundation and created for common use — think of these like parks in the real world…

Crypto

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Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District
Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District
Crypto

6 min read


Mar 17

Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime

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…

Romance Scam

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Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime
Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime
Romance Scam

8 min read


Feb 22

👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse

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…

Crypto

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👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse
👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse
Crypto

4 min read


Feb 20

How do you insure crypto assets?

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…

Crypto

5 min read

How do you insure crypto assets?
How do you insure crypto assets?
Crypto

5 min read


Feb 17

Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam

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. …

Crypto

6 min read

Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam
Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam
Crypto

6 min read


Feb 13

Limiting Staking: Rocket Pool Good 👍, SEC Bad 👎

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…

Crypto

5 min read

Limiting Staking: Rocket Pool Good 👍, SEC Bad 👎
Limiting Staking: Rocket Pool Good 👍, SEC Bad 👎
Crypto

5 min read


Feb 6

A Comprehensive Explanation of Ordinals: NFTs on Bitcoin

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…

Crypto

9 min read

A Comprehensive Explanation of Ordinals: NFTs on Bitcoin
A Comprehensive Explanation of Ordinals: NFTs on Bitcoin
Crypto

9 min read


Jan 27

My interview with a crypto scammer…

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…

Crypto

3 min read

My interview with a crypto scammer…
My interview with a crypto scammer…
Crypto

3 min read


Dec 22, 2022

The Russian Giveaway Scam Factory

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…

Crypto

7 min read

The Russian Giveaway Scam Factory
The Russian Giveaway Scam Factory
Crypto

7 min read


Dec 5, 2022

Are Quantum Computers Going to Break Bitcoin?

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…

Quantum

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Are Quantum Computers Going to Break Bitcoin?
Are Quantum Computers Going to Break Bitcoin?
Quantum

5 min read

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