The idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers.

As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between the world’s biggest crypto exchange and a government determined to make it pay.

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