RT Article
T1 Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 6
SP 1537
OP 1552
A1 Mackenzie, Simon
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838882723
AB Online markets in cryptocurrency represent a sprawling and eclectic alternative financial system, selling cutting edge techno-investment schemes that are complex and high risk. Crime control is almost entirely absent from this new crypto economy, and it is full of scams. This paper draws on an ethnography of crypto trading to review the main types of scam, suggesting that the grey economy of cryptocurrency trading is part of a wider evolution of society towards the technosocial, and beyond that perhaps towards the metaversal.
K1 cryptocurrency
K1 Scams
K1 Fraud
K1 Financial Crime
K1 Cybercrime
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab118