Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator Training

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies offer a relatively fast, inexpensive, and anonymous system of conducting transactions as compared to more traditional financial means. The acceptance of these digital currencies in the mainstream financial system also means that criminals can now easily introduce funds into the legitimate economy with little possibility of identification. Recording these transactions, however, provides law enforcement, investigators, auditors and compliance professionals the ability to track and identify the networks and hubs the currency is flowing through. In this course, you will learn common crimes where cryptocurrrency is involved, peer to peer exchanges and investigation tips.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more

The dark web is a side of the internet most people don’t know exists. Criminals have found the dark web useful, creating and interacting with marketplaces they believe to be undetectable. These marketplaces typically function as a conduit for illicit activity, such as illegal drug trade, weapons trafficking, human trafficking, and others. As criminals become adept at utilizing technology, it's important for investigators, auditors and compliance professionals to understand more about dark web activity. Illicit activity on the dark web is hard to track down and connect to a suspect. In this course, you'll be introduced to how dark web marketplaces and cryptocurrencies work together and how they translate into the physical world. This is crucial to investigators in order to identify evidence and understand how to investigate illicit dark web activity that often utilizes cryptocurrency.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more

In this final course of the Cryptocurrency Investigation series, we will discuss the concept of the blockchain, a public distributed ledger that keeps track of digital currency transactions, as a dynamic and useful technology. Each coin has its own blockchain, but the concept and technology are derived from the Bitcoin blockchain. It can be used by law enforcement and other industries in beneficial ways, but in the wrong hands, it can be exploited by criminal enterprises. Examples can range from tax evasion, the distribution of child pornography, trading of illegal weapons, to the sale of narcotics. In this course, you will be able to better understand the intricacies of blockchain technology and explore analytical tools for investigating these crimes.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more

This course is for people who have completed modules 1-5 or have a good understanding of cryptocurrencies. Advanced cryptocurrency analysis will broaden your understanding of the bitcoin transaction protocol and how transactions are associated by using clustering methods. We will explore the many ways in which crypto users can leverage technology to obfuscate their payment trails. This course will also examine evolving protocols that will likely impact Bitcoin, events that have led up to their development, and what protocols the Bitcoin community is moving away from.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more

Decentralized finance or Defi as it is known in the crypto space,  is an ever evolving and rapidly changing finance industry.  This course aims to provide a fundamental overview of the key components of Defi and how they operate.  Each section describes at least one example of a working product that implements the concept which users may try today.  As time progresses, new decentralized apps (dApps) will be created, destroyed and combined together to grow the decentralized financial system.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more

This module is designed to teach the audience a comprehensive understanding and analysis of the Ethereum network. Concisely, this includes a history of the network, the Ethereum protocol, the ERC-20 standard, smart contracts, proof-of-work (PoW) versus proof-of-stake (PoS), the main issues plaguing Ethereum and how they are expected to be resolved in the near future. In addition, this course will introduce the potentially vast utilization of Ethereum, the main difference that distinguishes Ethereum from Bitcoin, and a short introduction of how Ethereum aids DeFi (as this will be further expanded on in another module). Finally, the module concludes with an analysis of Ethereum clustering techniques, dissection of the Ethereum blockchain explorers, and a brief demonstration of how Ethereum investigations may look on Blockchain Intelligence Groups’ own QLUE™ investigation platform.   Training Support: trainingsupport@blockchaingroup.io Read more