On March 26, Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Michael Groen coauthored an article for The Cipher Brief titled “Preparing for a Digital Battlefield: National Security and Cryptocurrency” about combatting illicit actors and nation states with blockchain intelligence. He emphasized that sanctions enforcement and counterterrorism success must include digital tools and techniques to investigate, seize, and disrupt transactions in evolving domains to protect national security.
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