Across

3. Property of a good or service that can be sold in another location distant from where it was produced. Definition taken from Wikipedia.
5. Fraudulent cyber money made illegal in 2009.
6. The purported name of Bitcoin's founder. Was most likely nation state "bad actors" or a digital criminal underworld.
7. A fraudulent or deceptive act or operation.
8. Allows for banks, or other financial institutes, that are designed as a safety net, to be bypassed and instead puts the risk on the consumer., allowing for fraudulent activity or use of counterfeit currency. ________________ Cryptocurrency.
10. Not managed by laws or rules. Not conserved by any form of authority. Synonyms include uncontrollable, chaotic, and unsustainable.
11. The person who should be responsible for dealing with the risks and illegalities surrounding bitcoin (and the person who will be left dealing with the repurcussions of a failed economy if this is not dealt with) (acronym)
13. The art of manipulating data in such a way that only the creator and its intended recipient may understand the content, typically by using a secret code or a cipher.
14. Item is unavailable at a reasonable cost due to the practice of limiting creation. (See similar item to BTC - Web Handshake Certificate, usually given freely)
16. Amount in US dollars that hackers have stolen in cryptocurrency since 2017.
17. Database managed by a network of computers. This system is especially appealing to hackers because once the money has been stolen, it cannot be reversed.
18. A method in which the person responsible for trading assets for others illegally steal from their clientele.

Down

1. The corruption of authority which occurs when lawmakers put the good of the few over the good of the many for personal gain or for the preservation of bureaucracy.
2. An unbacked currency without regulation in spite of laws to prevent the creation of false financial instruments.
4. The practice of using confidential or unknown information to trade stocks to one's own benefit.
8. Data in the form of binary.
9. Payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. Common characteristics include offering overly consistent returns, and secretive or complex strategies. Name that Scheme. Taken from FBI.Gov-White Collar Crime.
12. The capital raised by a business or corporation through the issue and subscription of shares (also called equity).
15. The way in which politicians use funds illegally to benefit their own self-interest.