“…The literature review revealed a multitude of fraudulent and malicious activities in which cryptocurrencies can be employed. These are linked both to the financial sphere: money laundering, tax evasion, financial manipulation, commercial fraud (Angeline et al, 2021;Martin cevic et al, 2022;Scarcella, 2021;Vincent and Davenport, 2022;Zadorozhnyi et al, 2018), as well as to the non-financial area: financing terrorism, black market activities, drug trafficking, arms smuggling, gambling, illegal fundraising and pyramid scheme investments (Angeline et al, 2021;Martin cevic et al, 2022;Yan et al, 2022a;Zadorozhnyi et al, 2018).…”