This cover image released by Doubleday shows “Tracers in the Dark” by Andy Greenberg. (Doubleday via AP)
This cover image released by Doubleday shows “Tracers in the Dark” by Andy Greenberg. (Doubleday via AP)
“Tracers In The Dark” by Andy Greenberg (Doubleday)
The year was 2011. Cryptocurrency was a little-understood novelty, and Sen. Chuck Schumer called a news conference to vent outrage over a one-stop online shop for illegal drugs whose technology made sellers “virtually untraceable.”
The New York lawmaker’s description of Silk Road helped seed a persisting myth that technology reporter Andy Greenberg exhaustively dispels in “Tracers in the Dark,” that transactions of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can’t be tracked.
Greenberg sketches the evolution of a wholly new discipline in the surprisingly lively real-life police procedural, following law officers and…
