Investigating cryptocurrencies understanding, extracting, and analyzing blockchain evidence

"Bitcoin has traditionally been the payment system of choice for a criminal trading on the Dark Web, and now many other blockchain cryptocurrencies are entering the mainstream as traders are accepting them from low-end investors putting their money into the market. Worse still, the blockchain c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furneaux, Nick
Other Authors: Knottenbelt, William J. (writer of foreword)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, IN Wiley 2018
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the technology. What is a cryptocurrency?
  • The hard bit
  • Understanding the blockchain
  • Transactions
  • Mining
  • Wallets
  • Contracts and tokens
  • Carrying out investigations. Detecting the use of cryptocurrencies
  • Analysis of recovered addresses and wallets
  • Following the money
  • Visualization stems
  • Finding your suspect
  • Sniffng cryptocurrency traffic
  • Seizing coins
  • Putting it all together
  • Index