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TRM Talks: Tracers on the Blockchain with Andy Greenberg and Chris Janczewski

Jan 17, 2024 - 37min

EPISODE 48

TRM Talks: Tracers on the Blockchain with Andy Greenberg and Chris Janczewski

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TRM Talks has a new look and is easier to listen to than ever before! Join TRM’s Head of Global Policy, Ari Redbord, bi-weekly as he sits down with policy makers, business leaders, and investigators in the crypto space.

In our first new episode, Ari sits down with WIRED magazine’s Andy Greenberg and TRM’s Chris Janczewski, a former IRS-CI agent and the protagonist of Andy’s book Tracer’s in the Dark. They delve into how Chris and other investigators track and trace crypto to build investigations and hunt illicit actors on the blockchain.

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Upcoming episodes:

  • It’s All a Puzzle: Talking Crypto and National Security with Former Treasury and White House Official Carole House
  • Financial Inclusion and the Case for Stablecoins with Circle’s Dante Disparte
  • The CFTC’s Role In Crypto with Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero

About the guests

Andy Greenberg
WIRED Magazine

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. His books and excerpts from them published in WIRED have won awards including two Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business and financial reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. Greenberg works in WIRED’s New York office.

Chris Janczewski
IRS-CI CCU

Chris Janczewski is the Head of Global Investigations at TRM Labs, leading an elite team of former law enforcement professionals from agencies including the US Secret Service, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the UK’s National Crime Agency, and the Federal Police of Brazil. A trailblazer in cryptocurrency investigations, Chris brings over a decade of experience uncovering financial crimes and tracking illicit funds across blockchain networks.

Before joining TRM, Chris served as a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) for 13 years. He led some of the most high-profile cryptocurrency-related cases in history, including the largest government seizure of digital assets and the “Welcome to Video” takedown, a global investigation into a dark web child exploitation network. Chris also played a key role in establishing an inter-agency cryptocurrency strike force with the Washington, D.C. United States Attorney’s Office, and has briefed top policymakers at the highest levels of government on cryptocurrency and cybercrime. His work and investigative methodologies were cited extensively in the Department of Justice’s “Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework,” shaping national policy on digital asset crime.

Chris’s contributions to financial crime investigations have earned him numerous accolades, including the Secretary’s Honor Award (2020) and the Meritorious Service Award (2019) from the Secretary of the Treasury, as well as the Chief’s Investigative Excellence Award (2020) from IRS-CI.

Beyond his casework, Chris has been featured in major media and investigative projects. He recently appeared on the Netflix documentary “Biggest Heist Ever,” detailing his work as the lead investigator in the 2016 Bitfinex investigation, which resulted in the largest seizure in US history. Chris was also highlighted in Andy Greenberg’s book, “Tracers in the Dark,” which accounts some of the biggest cases in cryptocurrency-related financial crime. His investigative work has also been immortalized in the Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Museum, where his laptop — used in cracking the Bifinex case — is now part of the permanent collection.

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