Thursday, 8 February 2018

Bitcoin analytics - reprise

I saw this twitter post from Justin Seitz @jms_dot_py the other day:

https://twitter.com/jms_dot_py/status/958741474572750848

Its good to see this push to uncover the underside of the crypto currency ecosystem going forward.  It again mentions the point that the blockchain is a public ledger, which lists all accounts and all transactions that have ever occurred - forever. That gives quite a bit of time for us to pick over it. De-anonomizing accounts is the only barrier to getting full context on those transactions. Of course, there is only so far it can be taken right now, but in future, with better tools, who knows what we will uncover.

I first came across Justin Seitz through his Black Hat Python book - which is packed full of ingenuity. He also does a lot in the OSINT space and developed the very good Hunchley tool for OSINT investigations. Definitely not a black-hat, but he does like to look under stones. I follow his Hunchley daily dark web report - which is an example of that.

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