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Title: Analysing a supposed theft with blockchain.info's taint analysis Post by: Lohoris on July 07, 2013, 10:08:56 PM Here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251743.0) a newbie is claiming somebody stole him some bitcoins, and provided his robbed address: 16io8zfbhStqe9WVdHN3JLzc29D73okaoy.
I have (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251743.msg2676111#msg2676111) checked where his coins were gone, and they have only traveled through a single transaction, to this (https://blockchain.info/address/1HKywxiL4JziqXrzLKhmB6a74ma6kxbSDj) strange address: it has been used multiple times to receive coins, never to spend, and contains some (for me) odd transactions with multiple duplicated input addresses (i.e. in a single transaction an address appears multiple times as input). I've tried the taint analysis, and I got a strange result (https://blockchain.info/taint/1HKywxiL4JziqXrzLKhmB6a74ma6kxbSDj): the source address has a count of 108. Now, I don't know much about how this taint analysis works, but if those addresses were really unrelated, shouldn't the count be just 1? PS: I've no idea who the OP is, I just stumbled upon his post and tried to analyse this out of curiosity. |