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

[RoxxR]

Hey, how about adding support for twitter API - ie, sending automatic tweets when certain conditions are met? That would be dope...

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[flatfly]

Version 0.43.3 is out!

Fixes a minor indentation issue with large amounts, and adds output multiplexing (tee-style) support, which allows you to capture traffic both to the console and a log file (just start the tool with the -o argument for that). The log file is called "txtrace.log" and is located in the same path as the script, or in the following path if you are running the Windows executable: %AppData%\Chainsnort\0.43.3\Log.

No documentation or manual at this stage. It will come sooner or later.

Also, I didn't have much time to make progress on direct bitcoind support.
Of course, if anybody wants to help out, they are welcome to do so

[bitpop]

Man this is the third coincidence today. Creepy. I ran into tee for the first time earlier and now you mention it.

[flatfly]

Man this is the third coincidence today. Creepy. I ran into tee for the first time earlier and now you mention it.

The lack of any coincidences would be the greatest coincidence.

[flatfly]

Hey, how about adding support for twitter API - ie, sending automatic tweets when certain conditions are met? That would be dope...

Yes, this is actually on my to-do list! I am looking at the following notification types:
email, syslog, twitter and pastebin.

[flatfly]

Next feature (currently under testing): color highlighting of "interesting" addresses, based on a very simple external text file containing a list of addresses to watch for. For instance, in the below screenshot, the 1dice and 1A6TJ addresses are defined as 'interesting'.



When such an address is detected, an alert containing the relevant transaction details could also be emailed.

[RoxxR]

I tinkered a little bit with this and now I've got a dynamic chainsnort desktop wallpaper 



I'm thinking of making a little blog post on how to do this, if someone is interested.

[robanswe]

I tinkered a little bit with this and now I've got a dynamic chainsnort desktop wallpaper 

https://i.imgur.com/RieKGhl.png

I'm thinking of making a little blog post on how to do this, if someone is interested.

I'm interested it looks great!

[flatfly]

OK, I will remove the Windows binary download of chainsnort (complete with color output) very shortly, so get it while you can. Any early users who already own a copy of the chainsnort binary are allowed to freely use it forever. 

Now I don't want to turn it into a typical paid app, but I would like to try a new idea: as i do need thé donations and almost none were received so far, any time a tip comes in through the official donation address <1111127SpvabYpoeDoiz5L7QPkfiSh2Q>, the download is made freely available to anyone (not just the donator) for the next 24h.

[Sukrim]

... seriously?! This is hardly more than a few dozen lines of code.

Anyways, please open a proper development environment on github, so we can also improve this. On the other hand it is just a websocket listener that reformats stuff a little bit so far...

[cshpoet]

IS RPC version out yet?  Really looking forward to this! 

[BTCisthefuture]

OK, I will remove the Windows binary download of chainsnort (complete with color output) very shortly, so get it while you can. Any early users who already own a copy of the chainsnort binary are allowed to freely use it forever. 

Now I don't want to turn it into a typical paid app, but I would like to try a new idea: as i do need thé donations and almost none were received so far, any time a tip comes in through the official donation address <1111127SpvabYpoeDoiz5L7QPkfiSh2Q>, the download is made freely available to anyone (not just the donator) for the next 24h.

How much does the donation size have to be, I was wanting this app but realized the dl link is gone now.

[flatfly]

OK, I will remove the Windows binary download of chainsnort (complete with color output) very shortly, so get it while you can. Any early users who already own a copy of the chainsnort binary are allowed to freely use it forever. 

Now I don't want to turn it into a typical paid app, but I would like to try a new idea: as i do need thé donations and almost none were received so far, any time a tip comes in through the official donation address <1111127SpvabYpoeDoiz5L7QPkfiSh2Q>, the download is made freely available to anyone (not just the donator) for the next 24h.

How much does the donation size have to be, I was wanting this app but realized the dl link is gone now.

It can be anything you like! Donations help me further develop and maintain the tool. Once the donation is made please post here again in this thread to confirm. Thanks!

[flatfly]

IS RPC version out yet?  Really looking forward to this!  

No, I really could use some help with this. It's a little more complex (and time-consuming) than expected to implement it properly, and I don't even have the resources to run a full node to experiment with, unfortunately.  

[robanswe]

No, I really could use some help with this. It's a little more complex (and time-consuming) than expected to implement it properly, and I don't even have the resources to run a full node to experiment with, unfortunately.  

Run the full node in testnet?

[bitpop]

Blockchain has a public rpc

[flatfly]

Blockchain has a public rpc

Unfortunately, some key RPC methods required by chainsnort are disabled on their API.

[flatfly]

No, I really could use some help with this. It's a little more complex (and time-consuming) than expected to implement it properly, and I don't even have the resources to run a full node to experiment with, unfortunately.  

Run the full node in testnet?

I'm investigating this...

[flatfly]

I'd like to thank robanswe, who kindly gave me access to a full node for developing the RPC connector.

[flatfly]

The next version will also flag microtransactions (sub $1) in red. Due to the fee structure, only 1% of transactions are microtransactions currently.

I've also adopted the transparent background idea, with RoxxR's help