The largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance, recently added a special new member to their team. They have hired a ‘dark-web’ specialist to lead internal and external investigations at the crypto exchange.
Nils Anderson Roed
It is about this Nils Anderson Roed. He previously worked for Europol, the police force of the European Union, and was even project leader at the ‘Dark Web Unit’ of the Dutch National Police. His duties mainly included detecting criminal activity on the internet and the dark web.
He was part of some big police cases in Europe. For example, he contributed to operation Gravesac, which managed to roll up the underground Hansa Market and Alphabay. In addition, he has been involved in some prominent cases related to the world of cryptocurrencies. He is therefore a true expert in the field of online crime.
Binance
This expertise will come in handy in his new role at Binance. He will be responsible for making sure of the crypto exchange make it a safer place.
This new addition to Binance’s team comes as just the latest in a long line of people to once again put the exchange in a good light. Binance came up quite some time ago under fire by governments of many countries. Binance simply wouldn’t have things in order.
Since hiring security expert like Nils Anderson Of course, Roëd hopes Binance will change the critical view towards the exchange once and for all. Of course, there is still a lot of work to be done first.
Roëd believes that arresting the criminals in question is not enough to tackle crime. According to him, the entire ecosystem that enables perpetrators to commit criminal acts must be thoroughly investigated. He will therefore not only have been hired at Binance to catch crooks, but to investigate how it is possible that these crooks can commit crimes in the first place.
Of course, the details of his work at Binance are unknown and will most likely remain unknown. Nevertheless, this is a very interesting addition to the team behind Binance.