Olin Rankin

Olin Rankin is a high-tech crimes specialist with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Olin teaches throughout the United States, focusing on basic and intermediate instruction in classes such as dark web, virtual currency and digital forensics. Olin began his career in 2002 as a law enforcement officer, where he was awarded Detective of the Year and collaborated with local prosecutors to establish new procedures in forensic reporting.

Mining for bad guys

December 26, 2021

Cryptocurrencies have continued to rise in popularity over the last year and show no signs of loosening their grip on our attention. Like all things designed with good intentions, criminals […] Read More

Virtual currencies: Policy considerations

August 25, 2021

Policies have had a poor reputation in the law enforcement community for many years. We have all heard about a new policy written because of someone’s poor action or bad […] Read More