As technology grows, it moves alongside with crypto crime.

The first stolen cryptocurrency (Ether) occurred in Argentina which led to the first criminal sentence. Since then, crypto crime has been an issue in relation to the crypto economy.

In 2018, the rate of crypto crime increased but its effects on the large market were just the tip of an iceberg.

Analysis done by Chainalysis in January 2019 shows that crypto crime has decreased over the past years with only 1 percent of all Bitcoin transaction in 2018.

In the crypto ecosystem, Hackers are the main issue. Hackers generate billions of dollars in support of criminal activities, scams, and fraudsters also targeting an individual’s investment and darknet in full support of illegal activities which tarnishes the image of the crypto society.

Whenever hackers hack a cryptocurrency, they waste no time in cashing out after the attack which makes it difficult to track all of their transactions.

Crypto crime in relation to cryptocurrency has a high impact on society negatively to be precise. Unfortunately, crypto coins are the main mode of payment for crime activities. Which makes it even harder to trace perpetrators.

Nowadays, Wallets are been generated for cryptocurrency which serves as an offshore bank account used by crooks, drug dealers and scammers which has slown down economic activities. This often affects society when converting cryptocurrency to dollars.

Cryptojacking shows a clear indication that crypto crime is taking over the crypto space in a sense that hackers intend to use someone’s else computer power (electricity) to mine cryptocurrency by getting the victim to click on the malicious link. Which cause financial loss to the society and the state as a whole.

Crypto crime controls the society in diverse ways both online and offline. Monetary loss from crypto crime has a high impact on cryptocurrency society.

As people find ways and means of protecting themselves, crypto criminals also develop new ways of keeping the illicit flow of their illegal activities. Which is a serious issue on ecosystem?

Crypto crime has taking advantage of the Internet by attacking information meant for modern society using the computer as a tool. Crypto crime involves blockchain fraud, hacktism, silk road, anonymity, cryptocurrency scam etc.

Officials of Law enforcement finds it difficult to fight these crimes. in this case, affecting society by costing billions of dollars annually to protect society.

Cryptocurrency investors are the most victimised within a society. They fall as a victim to crypto crime including computer viruses, identity theft and credit card fraud. They feel annoyed, angry, cheated, anxious and mostly blame themselves for being attacked.

In spite of what they go through after being attacked, most people within a society won’t change their behavior toward crypto crime unless they become a victim.

As time pass by, crypto crime has become business for crypto criminals driven by personal interest, billions of dollars have been discovered. Half a billion are nowhere to be found. More will be stolen without trace which is a threat to crypto society. So, a time will come where crypto crime will take over the crypto ecosystem. Am not predicting, but base on the activities that are still going on shows a clear indication that crypto crime is at its peak and will one day take over.

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One of the reasons why some governments and private investors fight against the adoption of crypto as a financial instrument, irrespective of its increase in adoption is because of its anonymous nature and the possible use of it in crime related activities.

This fear could be seen as real since data had shown that the rate of crypto theft had surge by more than 7 times between 2016 and 2018. However, there are factors that have encouraged it which includes:

1) Patronage of dark and deep web: most of the private data that one could never imagine could be accessed easily through the activities of sellers in the dark and deep web. This has given hackers an easy access to information that could make an operation successful.

2) The inadequate laws for crypto crime offenders: most countries do not have sufficient laws that could be used to prosecute a cryptocurrency crime offender. This has made offenders in most cases to admit the crime, since the penalties could be lower when compared to a crime committed with fiscal cash.

3) Delay in accessing the right information: the anonymous nature of cryptocurrency could make a victim, to pay hackers and remain quiet till the money had been removed from the market. The continuous possibility of creating an unlimited number of accounts with decentralized exchanges makes it hard for the offenders to be caught easily.

4) An avenue to make quick money: some of this data could be sold by an insider since research has shown that more than 15% of hacking activities are due to information that an insider sells to outside users. Cryptocurrency makes such transaction to remain anonymous and the seller could keep the money raised for some time before cashing out.

5) Rise in knowledge: some people want to test the viability of the knowledge they had acquired on real products. This quest makes it easier for people to continuously involve in crypto crimes.

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