In the course of a decade as a special agent with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Tigran Gambaryan has seen them all.
From plundered crypto exchange Mt Gox, to dark-net marketplace Silk Road and the corrupt cops stealing its funds, to child pornography site Welcome to Video, to the scam involving the hacking of 130 VIP Twitter profiles, Gambaryan was the point man in nearly every major investigation involving bitcoin or cryptocurrency. “I’m a dinosaur in the crypto world,” he says. “When I first started, Silk Road was one of the only places where you could spend your bitcoins, other than buying pizza.”
Gambaryan had to teach himself how to
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