Jonathan Levin is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis, a company that traces the blockchain for multiple cryptocurrencies and provides many services regarding cryptocurrency.  He has a Master's Degree in Economics from Oxford University and was recently recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of 40 under 40 influencers in finance.

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @jony_levin

In this episode, we discuss:

1. How Chainalysis started
2. How the Mount Gox bankruptcy started Chainalysis as the leader in tracing Bitcoin
3. How Chainalysis is fighting fraud and money laundering markets.  See http://markets.chainalysis.com
4. Certifications and courses that Chainalysis provides (Reactor, Know Your Transaction)
5. Why financial institutions need to monitor and understand cryptocurrency
6. What steps to take to start a career in tracing cryptocurrency
7. Why cryptocurrency is more of a technology than financial transactions
8. Chainalysis helped the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, and other federal agencies in an international child abuse and money laundering investigation on Welcome to Video (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet-child)
9. His motivation is to stop bad actors from using the blockchain and to expand the technology worldwide

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