📍Crypto Crimes & UK strategy 🎤 Andrew Snowden MP asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of police and enforcement capacity to investigate cryptocurrency-related crimes, including scams, ransomware payments, and illicit trading platforms. 🎤 In response, Dan Jarvis MP responded that the UK government has strengthened UK policing capabilities to tackle cryptocurrency-related crime effectively. The Government will also soon publish a new fraud strategy designed to tackle all types of scams, including those involving cryptocurrencies. ----- ✍🏽 In 2018, BBA published one of the world's first papers on investigating #Crypto crimes, authored by BBA Fellow Prof Bill Buchanan and BBA Editor, Simon Dyson:

The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime | Published in The Journal of The British Blockchain Association

By William Buchanan, Simon Dyson & 1 more. This paper reviews the stateof-the-art in terms of the methods of privacy that are being used within cry...

🏛️ The BBA is the Secretariat of the APPG on Blockchain Technologies and UK's industry body advancing evidence-based adoption of Blockchain and Cryptoassets. #Blockchain #Crypto #Crime