[ANN] chainsnort (live transaction monitoring and fingerprinting tool)

[RoxxR]

please reup the windows version !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Zero donations or contributions in 5 months, people take and don't give anything back... No wonder this project is dying...

[RoxxR]

Yeeha!

[Dabs]

Interesting. I don't know how I missed this. But I guess all the data is coming out from bitcoin-qt / bitcoind, there is no need to use the blocknotify or walletnotify if you have this tool.

[instacalm]

Love this little app, soothing to observe all the transactions flowing

[Mitchell]

I just found out about this program and it works great! Send you a (very) small tip. Keep up the good work

[flatfly]

I just found out about this program and it works great! Send you a (very) small tip. Keep up the good work

Thanks for the tip! As a sign of gratitude, I will PM you a special version of chainsnort with a couple of additional features (within a few days).

[Mitchell]

Thanks for the tip! As a sign of gratitude, I will PM you a special version of chainsnort with a couple of additional features (within a few days).

No problem man. You deserved it. I will patiently await your PM.

[flatfly]

In the meantime, here's a teaser of the extended version, which will include a verbose mode showing all inputs and outputs for each transaction, and simple pattern-matching capabilities.

[flatfly]

I have also implemented a new advanced feature called transaction fingerprinting, which attempts to classify transactions in one (or more) categories based on certain behavioral patterns. Of course this can never be 100% perfect, but I'm aiming for a decent level of accuracy. It is still experimental at this time.


Example:

[Mitchell]

Those are some awesome features you are working on! I'm glad that I send you a donation

[flatfly]

OK, the "transaction-type guessing engine" now has 14 different tags recognized.
Feel free to PM me if interested in trying this new private beta (Windows only for now).

[flatfly]

The download link for the latest published windows build (0.43.3c - January 12, 2014) is available again.

I've also updated the link in the OP.

[Meuh6879]

please reup the windows version !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Zero donations or contributions in 5 months, people take and don't give anything back... No wonder this project is dying...

I don't see a bitcoin adress for donation ... 

[Propulsion]

The websocket.py download is a 404.

Workaround was to grab it from here: https://github.com/liris/websocket-client

[UberNifty]

It never ceases to amaze me the awesome innovations such as this that Bitcoin has inspired... will definitely be keeping an eye on this thread.

[Dabs]

I'd like to try to private beta.

[flatfly]

Hi,

- sorry for the delayed responses, I've been literally overwhelmed by the amount of stuff and work lately. Trying to redefine my priorities but it's easier said than done.

- will send the latest private beta build to Dabs as soon as it's ready, later this week most likely

- about donations: they can be sent to either 1SEPsD35L3C6nKUghwNvRHeyGSyTUSRYS or 1111127SpvabYpoeDoiz5L7QPkfiSh2Q and are always warmly accepted

- a new transaction type (XCP_OP) is now detected by the fingerprinting module, bringing the number of different types recognized to 15.  Note: Don't expect to see that new type very easily, there are only a couple of XCP transactions done per hour.

And thanks for all the feedback!

[RoxxR]

Is it possible to mark multisig transactions?

[flatfly]

Chainsnort now recognizes P2SH (multisig) transactions and tags them in real-time!

Screenshot upcoming...

[bitpop]

Can this be added to Bitcoin-ncurses?