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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对元宇宙的犯罪学：加密货币骗局、灰色经济和技术社会

加密货币的在线市场代表了一个庞大且不拘一格的另类金融系统，出售复杂且高风险的尖端技术投资计划。这种新的加密经济几乎完全没有犯罪控制，而且充满了骗局。本文利用加密货币交易的民族志来回顾主要的骗局类型，表明加密货币交易的灰色经济是社会向技术社会的更广泛演变的一部分，并且可能超越了这一演变。