Lourdes Miranda is a Washington, DC-based Compliance Operations Manager at Metal, a San Francisco, FDIC-insured cryptocurrency exchange that offers two platforms to send and receive money while earning Metal coins and other cryptocurrencies through the Metal Pay App and Metal X. Lourdes is also a former CIA officer and an FBI analyst that focused on combating financial crimes globally, and now specializes in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and distributed ledger technology compliance, analysis, investigations, and training.