Hey Icarusis,

Robocoin launched a new site which includes an API.  It will update as new machines are brought online.  https://www.robocoinkiosk.com/

Here is the API: http://docs.robocoin.apiary.io/

I implore you to check out the reddit thread regarding this - it's a very standard agreement in my opinion -> http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1re65f/i_received_this_from_a_business_partner_today

Here is some information on the Robocoin ATM heading up to Vancouver ->  http://blog.robocoinkiosk.com/2013/10/22/robocoin-is-en-route/

It depends on the legal environment the operator places the machines at.  Some jurisdictions will allow them to disable it completely, other will need them to remain compliant.  Some jurisdictions will only allow a certain $ amount to be transacted before identification collection is required.  Operators can place users who have provided identification into higher limits than those who have not.  It's very flexible.

It can both buy and sell Bitcoin and will be shipping Fall 2013:
http://blog.robocoinkiosk.com/2013/08/27/robocoin-has-arrived/

New blood has entered the mix in the Bitcoin machine market!
https://robocoinkiosk.com/

It can both buy and sell Bitcoin and will be shipping Fall 2013:
http://blog.robocoinkiosk.com/2013/08/27/robocoin-has-arrived/

New blood has entered the mix in the Bitcoin machine market!
https://robocoinkiosk.com/

Have you guys considered using this brand new tool to help you track this address down?  http://blockviewer.com/#1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM

I certainly am.  Check it out now!  I just pushed a totally new version tonight, which is a complete overhaul.  I'll be making a separate public announcement, once I get some feedback from some people and can negotiate a few things with my hosting provider.  Here's wikileak's ownership network as an example: http://blockviewer.com/#1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v  Check out the Help on the site to figure out what's going on.  Ill be adding more soon.

There are definitely some major changes coming - basically its going to look completely different.  I also ran out of space on my build server so its really delayed at the moment too - I feel its just really not yet polished enough for all this attention but oh well.  Thanks for nominating it!

Yes sir you did, thank you piuk!

Okay, I am planning on completely overhauling the client visualization because it is way too confusing and not useful enough.  The new visualization I am working on will be more like how google maps works - where fully zoomed out you see continents, major countries, etc.  As you zoom in, the map gets more detailed (smaller countries, cities, etc).  This concept will be applied to the visualization - where when fully zoomed out you will see the largest owners - ie: mt gox, satoshi dice, etc.  As you zoom in, you see the smaller owners like the most of us.  You will only be able to search by address, which would be like typing in a zip code into google maps where it will zoom in right to the owner.. but you can see all the nodes around it.

Circle radius will be denoted by the amount of times they have sent and received from other owners (they will also be labelled if they were identified to real-life entities like screen names).  Lines will visualize two 2 dimensions: thickness will be amount sent and color will be how recent it was sent where hotter colors are very recent while cooler colors are old.  

I am currently rebuilding the owner network to include the times when people sent money to other owners, so that will take a couple days to build.  I have also been adding more websites the program scrapes to associate owners to real life screen names.  I need to figure out a good library I can use which can help me display several of these "layers" (the top being the least detailed, the bottom being the most detailed) in an efficient manner and stitch them together.  

The visualization right now isn't updating because my build server has run out of hard disk space again... So at the moment its out of date.  I hope to resolve this soon.

Thanks for your feedback so far!  I know this owner network, when properly visualized, will prove to be a very useful tool to the bitcoin community.

It's not just addresses - groups of addresses can be be identified to the same user.  Go here and click on the owner icon: http://blockviewer.com/#/owns/1ELECeJompinDox61L73eAUyaWpe3Q5HZB - you can see 190+ addresses has been linked to him as well!  In fact, the tool even identified his screen name (look at the line label pointing from his address to the owner icon) so he's explicitly identified.

EDIT:
What's even more damming is that another address was explicity identified to be from the user "flatfly".  So the OP also owns flatfly username too -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=52782

http://blockviewer.com/#/trans/a96f70bddb63e0873679f0a443a34db2d406dd2fc8ea762a0323dd0d8cd3a8a3

Sent 61 to Gox, then the rest went back to him.  It may not be gox, I haven't gotten around to labeling the very popular owners yet, but the address he sent that to owns over 200,000 addresses and has sent money to and from people over 100,000 times...

To me it's very clear that he's merely splitting up the money among several new addresses that he owns.  I followed 2 paths from his ownership node from the main address, and you can tell hes sending it to relatively inactive owners (since these owners only own a single address and have no other owners who sent them money), which suggests hes just sending it to brand new addresses with relatively no activity.  I only found one deposit where he sent the money to Mt Gox, and another where he probably sent it to a different person.  Then again, I only clicked around for a bit:


Here's his ownership node if any of you are interested -> http://blockviewer.com/#/node/28274126

Finding connected addresses has become MUCH easier with my latest tool.  Please take a look at my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103609.0

Here, as an example, is wikileaks public donation address: http://blockviewer.com/#/owns/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v.  It can be seen that over 90 addresses have also been connected to that single address.  Be sure to click on the owner node and see where wikileaks has received money and where it has sent money.

If you would like to try it yourself, plug in an address and under search hit "Owner Address" to see if your address has been added to what I call the owner network. I just launched this application like 2 days ago, so please forgive its "roughness".

I'm happy to answer any questions!

I just wanted to give you all some updates!

New Feature:
 - The application has begun scraping user's signatures from these forums.  If you have a bitcoin address in your signature, your ownership node will be identified.  This means that your single signature address can identify potentially thousands of other addresses owned by you (and addresses that might be redeemed by you in the future).  Look for new lines pointing to owners with forum user names in the next few hours!  As an example, you can see that user cdhowie had over 50 of his addresses provably identified by a single address in his signature:  http://blockviewer.com/#/owns/1CZ8QgBWZSV3nLLqRk2BD3B4qDbpWAEDCZ (After the graph loads, click on the owner node to see the other addresses owned by him, as well as other owners sending to him and who he is sending money to!)  The UI right now may hide the username of lines that identify owners due to grouping - I'll be working on that in the future so you will always be able to see who the owner is if they were identifies to a real world identity.

A few things fixed:
 - The graph has been slowed down quite a bit.  No longer will you be fighting with the nodes bouncing around really fast.
 - Every node now displays its unique id for easy retrieval in the search bar.
 - Thanks to some feedback, the data has been fixed as the ownership network had some duplicate nodes.
 - Fixed an issue where the graph would disappear if no new information was retrieved on click. (Such as clicking on an unredeemed sent transaction).
 - Server performance is now scaled to another machine, meaning the information will only be roughly 15 minutes behind the latest block.
 - Application now displays the last block processed when going to the home page, giving you an idea of where its at.  If there is a block ahead of it, that means the low level chain has been built, but the high level owner network is still being processed.  
 - The on-hover dialog box no longer sticks when sometimes clicking on a node.
 
In the works:
 - Much more useful statistics will be showing up with owners.  Right now, nothing is really shown other than transfer amounts to other owners.  I am especially interested in getting dates implemented.
 - Nodes will be easier to click soon!  Right now they are still pretty tough.
 - The tables that pop-up are still buggy - that will be fixed.
 - Custom queries.  This is more of a longer term goal, but wanted to keep you all in that loop.
 - Documentation, explanation, and the like needs to be explained better to show the crazy implications of user/money tracking.

I will be inactive the next few days as I attend to some other business, I expect to be back soon with more fixes and at least one new feature!

Yep I noticed that problem with the dialog box that doesn't go away - I'm addressing that issue along with a laundry list of other ones in two days or so.  The slowness is definitely a result of too many nodes being drawn - not too sure at the moment how to get around that.

 I wanted to ask you - what do you mean by clumping together owners?  Right now, owners already represent groups of addresses that all belong to the same entity.  What do you mean exactly?

Yes.  Absolutely.  I just got more space so its about to begin building the updated data.  All you would do is take that transaction hash, put it in the search bar and select "Transaction.  From there, traverse up the relationships (through received -> redeemed -> owned -> owner).  From there, use this high-level abstraction to determine where the money went.  (This is one way).  You can also traverse the low-level block chain, get to the address that redeemed it, then see if that address has been linked to others.  Sorry, I hope this makes sense.

Hey guys - I developed a tool that lets you more easily track money flow between both addresses and owners (which are provably grouped addresses belonging to the same entity). I plugged in the address and expanded some of the more interesting transfers - check it out for yourself!  http://blockviewer.com/#/owns/1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM  Click on the nodes to expand them - they are a little tough to click on (I'm working on that).

 

It's kind of a mess because I expanded too many nodes, granted, but you can download the data files from the API and import them into https://gephi.org/ if you want to do some real analysis.  Check out the link above, or join the discussion thread about this tool here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103609.0

I just launched it today, so there are bound to be lots of bugs.  Let me know!

NOTE: The data is about a day old right now - I'm working with my host to get more storage as this database has consumed my limit of 50GB at the moment.  Please check back soon - it will be as updated as blockchain.info as soon as this is resolved.

Let me know how it goes using it!

Hey Crazy Rabbit did you try just typing in your address (from your signature bar) in the search and clicking "Owner Address"?  It seems to work fine with me, I'd be curious why it's not working right for you http://blockviewer.com/#/owns/19JrBV8KekrJwcsyQMmKBS8EXW2hAFGss9:


As you can see, you have received 72 transfers from other owner addresses, it has been able to link 8 addresses associated with your public one, and if I were to continue clicking on the address nodes be able to pull up how much money each of those has redeemed.