- Police cryptocurrency experts at Europol and London's Met Police told Business Insider that a subset of cryptocurrencies are associated with criminality.
- Monero, zcash and dash have all raised flags.
- These three currencies have extra privacy features which can frustrate investigations.
- Exchanges which deal in these currencies are also less likely to cooperate with law enforcement.
Crime linked to cryptocurrency is taking on an increasingly high profile as law enforcement agencies scramble to deal with a new technology complicating how they operate. But not all coins are created equal.
While bitcoin steals most of the headlines, with wild price swings making and breaking fortunes by the hour, a hard core of extra-secure currencies are starting to worry police forces the world over even more.
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