{"id":51848,"date":"2024-05-13T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=51848"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:37:29","slug":"those-who-fight-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/those-who-fight-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Fight Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=46a38863-bcbc-5445-a1c4-23b2b8aa5472&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780385548090\/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;client=rivervega&amp;type=unbound\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The scariest monsters are the ones who hide in plain sight.\u00a0 \u00a0 Unsuspecting men with a penchant for casual cruelty.\u00a0 \u00a0Murder-for-hire, extortion, and lurid sex crimes bought and sold by doughy dweebs, trusted father figures, and secret millionaires operating in the public library stacks.\u00a0 \u00a0This book is nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary-bett.na2.iiivega.com\/search\/card?id=46a38863-bcbc-5445-a1c4-23b2b8aa5472&amp;entityType=FormatGroup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tracers in the Dark: the Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency<\/a> is \u00a0a globetrotting technological thriller, from Bangkok to far flung data centers in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after cryptocurrency&#8217;s birth in 2009, its inability to be traced financially made it a bastion for purchasing unspeakable acts on the darkweb.<br \/>\nWho can find and vanquish these faceless ghouls?\u00a0 Enter a cast of intrepid heroes seemingly plucked from a technological Homeric tradition.\u00a0 \u00a0We have Tigran Gambaryan, the forensic IRS agent born into abject Soviet poverty.\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Meiklejohn is\u00a0 the computer scientist weaned on cryptographs.\u00a0 At the age of ten she hunted in Mom&#8217;s law office for patterns among cancelled checks.\u00a0 She beat the NYTimes Crossword daily by 14 and became obsessed with the Rosetta stone and cracking ancient languages.\u00a0 She&#8217;ll do nicely.\u00a0 And then, of course, Michael Gronager \u2013 Cofounder of Chainalysis. The man who turned cryptocurrency from assumed anonymity to a permanent breadcrumb trail back to far-flung dens of villany.\u00a0 All savant superheroes in their own regard.<br \/>\nEvil was outrageously outmatched.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s satisfying to hear how this crew uses their powers&#8230;impossible to pity the ones that get caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scariest monsters are the ones who hide in plain sight.\u00a0 \u00a0 Unsuspecting men with a penchant for casual cruelty.\u00a0 \u00a0Murder-for-hire, extortion, and lurid sex crimes bought and sold by doughy dweebs, trusted father figures, and secret millionaires operating in the public library stacks.\u00a0 \u00a0This book is nonfiction. 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