[ANN - IN CONSTRUCTION] PhysiTrack - A General Tracker for Physical Bitcoin

[Room101]

If you're looking for posted Bitcoin addresses, it's quite easy to find. If you have to get the information from images, I don't know how to automate that.

I think that could be pretty easy to automate, you would need some tricks for distinguishing keys from other numbers like dates and block heights and stuff people put in photos. The biggest issue would probably be cost....because the keys are usually small relative to the picture, the Cloud API probably wouldn't work, although I'll check to see. You would have to run a custom algorithm that zooms in on the coin....doable, but probably very expensive to do in the cloud.

The first step would probably be to do a quick and dirty scrape and see how many were missing addresses, and go from there. This shit will only get easier and cheaper to do though, the stuff you can do with AWS now is lightyears ahead of where they where even a year ago.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/detect-labels-console.html

[Room101]

.....or you could just ask makers for their address lists

I want to be able to track a coin over time though.....see when it sold, who to etc. Get an idea of its provenance. Know its history. An mj owned coin will eventually be more valuable than some random coin with no history!

[Room101]

.....or you could just ask makers for their address lists

I want to be able to track a coin over time though.....see when it sold, who to etc. Get an idea of its provenance. Know its history. An mj owned coin will eventually be more valuable than some random coin with no history!

oh...then maybe I am missing the scope/idea of this project... I was under the assumption it is just a  yes/no format that shows if "coin XX" is loaded or unloaded still.

I highly doubt any coin would be worth more just because person "x" owned or held it... seems silly...but what do I know...

And how do you prove ownership of a coin?

You wouldn't be able to prove who owned it, but you could track its sales over time, especially if sold on this forum. Won't make any difference now, but in 30 years? Knowing the provenance of a Casascius I think would be very valuable. Ie. Forum user x bought direct from Mike, who sold it two Y, who is now selling it. Provenance makes other collectibles worth a lot more, especially if owned by someone notable....which I'm sure you will be in bitcoin history 50 years from now MJ!