Stephanie Hughes

Yeah.

Can Caterpillar meet the demand, you know, both from all the data centers that want its generators and from other places that maybe traditionally wanted generators like hospitals?

How does this position Caterpillar for the future, both in the near and the long term?

That's Marketplace's Dan Ackerman.

We'll have a link to more of Dan's reporting on our website, marketplacetech.org.

Jesus Alvarado produced this episode.

I'm Stephanie Hughes, and that's Marketplace Tech.

Crypto is increasingly becoming a tool for crime.

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Cryptocurrency is being used more frequently in illegal transactions.

About $158 billion was used in illicit crypto activity last year, an all-time high.

That's according to a new report from the startup TRM Labs.

This comes as the overall crypto ecosystem is growing.

And it should be said legitimate uses of crypto are growing at a faster rate than illegitimate ones.

I talked about all this with Ari Redboard, one of the authors of the new report.

You mentioned sanctions.

Sanctions-related crypto activity rose over 400% last year, making it the largest contributor to this rise.

Sanctions can prohibit transactions with certain countries or individuals.

They can be broad or narrow.