Title: [ANN] LostCoins service attempt to help scams victims Post by: JPCA on September 21, 2018, 05:53:43 AM Hi
I started looking at blockchains in summer 2017, I looked at a lot of crypto-currencies and after discovering mybtgwallet.com scam, I tried to discover through Bitcoin public ledger where the stolen coins moved: I spent some hours with blockexplorer.com (and a notepad to draw a transactions history graph) until I was lost in the ledger... I needed a specific explorer dedicated to that purpose: showing only spent transactions, greater than a threshold amount, and summing spent transactions to same address. I wanted also to learn more about blockchain and Angular, so I crafted LostCoins Explorer: http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/. http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/assets/lostcoins_screenshot.png For user friendly discovery, I selected known scam Bitcoin adresses and drill down into biggest transactions. I found interesting addresses with regular transfers to same recipients with rounded amounts (http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/addr/1KS5rUBtvgd62eAz5rKdGbeXwM2odfNWXj). Sometimes I found where some coins rest and monitoring/owner investigation is needed. Sometimes, like for mybtgwallet.com, the transactions pass through some mixing service addresses :-( It's a first stage prototype and before investing more time and money on it I need blochain experienced user opinion: is this service useful? specially for scam victims. Thanks for your time and feedbacks! |