Illegal crypto transactions fell in 2020. This is what a report by the analysis company Chainalysis says.In times when Bitcoin and Co. record new all-time highs every few weeks and days, crypto critics are also getting louder and louder. They sometimes call for tough regulation. The reason: The digital assets served illegal purposes, for example to finance international terrorism, as an anonymous means of payment in drug trafficking and for buying and selling weapons. But what is behind these allegations?The new crypto crime report for 2020 by the analysis company Chainalysis shows that the proportion of criminal crypto transactions has declined. The transfer volume corresponded to around 10 billion US dollars, which represented a total of around 0.34 percent of all crypto transfers. Compared to 2019 ($ 21.4 billion, 2.1 percent) that was a decrease of 1.76 percent. The analysis company mentioned that the proportion of illegal crypto activities could rise again in the future. There it was initially assumed that the total criminal share was 1.1 percent. In the course of the year, however, new cases became known, which is why the data had to be corrected upwards. Assuming the same dynamic as 2019, the share could rise to around 0.7 percent. It is unclear exactly how high the increase will be. However, according to Chainalysis, it is likely that there will be.According to the report, the proportions of various illegal crypto activities have barely changed compared to 2019. Fraud and activity in darknet markets continued to make up the majority of illegal transfers. The biggest surprise of the year came from the third place \u201cRansomware\u201d. Although ransomware made up \u201conly\u201d 7 percent of all criminal crypto transfers in 2020, compared to the previous year this was an increase of 311 percent to 350 million US dollars.The American analysis\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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