Elliptic is part of an emerging group of startups fighting crime in the burgeoning Wild West of cryptocurrency. Whether its to intercept drug sales, money laundering, or even kidnapping ransoms, startups from the U.S. to the U.K. are making and licensing forensic software to law enforcement agencies all over the world. Jason Weinstein, co-founder of the Blockchain Alliance, an organization that brings together data analysis companies with law enforcement agencies to combat criminal activity on the blockchain, says the forensic software industry making tools to track bitcoin transactions is "booming."