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      Criminology towards the metaverse: Cryptocurrency scams, grey economy and the technosocial

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      The British Journal of Criminology
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          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.

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                The British Journal of Criminology
                Oxford University Press (OUP)
                0007-0955
                1464-3529
                February 07 2022
                February 07 2022
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                [1 ]School of Social & Cultural Studies, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, Level 9 Murphy Building, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, New Zealand
                Article
                10.1093/bjc/azab118
                59903278-a988-45f6-b5f8-693c15e60532
                © 2022

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