Announcing Blockworm - a free blockchain investigator!

[Vod]

You are the second person to mention Arkham - guess I will have to check them out.

Yes, you should. They have the best tracer and visualizer I've seen so far.

I still cannot believe they just wiped all my labels. I had close to 500 labels and now they're just gone. And it took me a while to add them all, like years. If I had thought of paying for their service before, I definitely won't now.

That's why a free Arkham-style visualizer would be great.

So a feature to export/import labels would be useful?  Should be done this week.   I learned from ShadowPulse and no longer make changes on live code.  After 40 years of programming.   

[nutildah]

So a feature to export/import labels would be useful?  Should be done this week.   I learned from ShadowPulse and no longer make changes on live code.  After 40 years of programming.  

Before you spend too much time, let me take a closer look at everything you've done already and I'll let you know. Will get back to you shortly. Thanks!

[Vod]

So a feature to export/import labels would be useful?  Should be done this week.   I learned from ShadowPulse and no longer make changes on live code.  After 40 years of programming.  

Before you spend too much time, let me take a closer look at everything you've done already and I'll let you know. Will get back to you shortly. Thanks!

You will not notice any change re labelling.  It's still in development and not live.  My wording was misleading - I should have wrote "So a feature to export/import labels would be useful?  The label system should be done this week."

No good idea is wasted time - BCT and r/bitcoin are the only places I've advertised so far - this is going to be a free tool for all bitcoin users.

[owlcatz]

I have used this a little bit myself, and gotta say it's quite helpful & useful -

always good to have alternative non-mainstream sites popping up like this to combat scammers.

Well done Vod, appreciate the effort and work! 

[Vod]

always good to have alternative non-mainstream sites popping up like this to combat scammers.

Wonderful to finally have peace now that we see the 22K coins move from his Ponzi to NastyFans, and know who owns every single address.

Before you spend too much time, let me take a closer look at everything you've done already and I'll let you know. Will get back to you shortly. Thanks!

I have completed work on the label feature and it is live.  I provide the choice to share your labels between projects, or be project independant.

I created 13 categories to help organize, and a strong filter/report system.  (I love reports!)



LMK if this is what you envisioned.

[FinneysTrueVision]

I still cannot believe they just wiped all my labels. I had close to 500 labels and now they're just gone. And it took me a while to add them all, like years. If I had thought of paying for their service before, I definitely won't now.

That's why a free Arkham-style visualizer would be great.

Your labels should still be there if you are logged in. By default it shows custom entities, which is a much shorter list, if you go to https://arkm.com/labels/addresses. You have to click on the barely visible ‘Labels’ tab, right next to ‘Entities’, to get to your custom labels.

[owlcatz]

I have completed work on the label feature and it is live.  I provide the choice to share your labels between projects, or be project independant.

I created 13 categories to help organize, and a strong filter/report system.  (I love reports!)

LMK if this is what you envisioned.

I was actually thinking like "Your own labels" myself, but not sure about nutlidah.

Like "My casascius coin" or whatever.

Edit - I used to try to find a good mobile app to track just basic coin addresses in case they were swept etc, but could never find anything decent.

There could be another gap/idea etc, but I haven't searched recently.

[Vod]

I was actually thinking like "Your own labels" myself, but not sure about nutlidah.

Like "My casascius coin" or whatever.

So was I!  You can enter your own labels - the icons are just a way to categorize and filter quickly.

[owlcatz]

So was I!  You can enter your own labels - the icons are just a way to categorize and filter quickly.

Ah, sorry I missed that. I think mine just auto-compobulated with the address as I didn't really test that much on labels, my bad.

[Vod]

Edit - I used to try to find a good mobile app to track just basic coin addresses in case they were swept etc, but could never find anything decent.

OK, can you explain this a bit more?  Blockworm has it's own database with two proprietary cache levels that allow for the speed it works at.  It already monitors every single address for change after each block.

Are you thinking of a feature that lets you enter additional addresses to monitor?

Also, I am curious how people feel about email registration.  Would you prefer a SSO from a popular client like Discord or Telegram?  I just need a way to relay notifications of project change, I'm not planning on sending out newsletters or anything.  Personally, I find them annoying when I sign up for just one reason and want to forget about it until I need it again.

[decodx]

Also, I am curious how people feel about email registration.  Would you prefer a SSO from a popular client like Discord or Telegram?  I just need a way to relay notifications of project change, I'm not planning on sending out newsletters or anything.  Personally, I find them annoying when I sign up for just one reason and want to forget about it until I need it again.

I'm fine with this personally, as long as the process is as straightforward as possible. I've always preferred regular email login to third party SSOs if at all possible (though maybe that's just me).

At least I can do it by keeping an email address specifically for things like this - my “burner-ish” email account just for signing up to random sites - so my normal email account isn't getting nuked, etc. I bet that almost everyone does the same thing though!

[seoincorporation]

Edit - I used to try to find a good mobile app to track just basic coin addresses in case they were swept etc, but could never find anything decent.

Also, I am curious how people feel about email registration.  Would you prefer a SSO from a popular client like Discord or Telegram?  I just need a way to relay notifications of project change, I'm not planning on sending out newsletters or anything.  Personally, I find them annoying when I sign up for just one reason and want to forget about it until I need it again.

I don't like the email registration at all... There should be a no-login way to track the coins. I mean, with the login, you could have your own sessions and your own address/transaction for tracking, but with the no-login version we should be able to input an address or transaction and do some tracking. Because this way, a lot of user who reach the service will walk away before creating an account, but if they have the chance to taste the service, then some of them will start creating their accounts.

[Vod]

There should be a no-login way to track the coins.

The issue is abuse.  My personal website is hit with 50 spam registrations a day.  I wouldn't want someone using AI to overwhelm my system.  Do you have any suggestions?

[DYING_S0UL]

I don't like the email registration at all... There should be a no-login way to track the coins. I mean, with the login, you could have your own sessions and your own address/transaction for tracking, but with the no-login version we should be able to input an address or transaction and do some tracking. Because this way, a lot of user who reach the service will walk away before creating an account, but if they have the chance to taste the service, then some of them will start creating their accounts.

Not really a suggestion, but you can however use a temp email to register if you wanna have a quick taste of it (without using your own mail).

Well, I did it. And it worked for me! The verification code does reaches the mailbox, and it only takes a few seconds to finish setting up everything.

You search the address you wanna take a look at, take what you need, the tracking stuff, and simply log out/clear data and whatnot! Note that, personal mail or tempmail, whatever you use doesn't matter, cause once you create a project, you cannot delete it (the last I checked I couldn't). The searched address (and it's content) remains saved in the database!

[Vod]

cause once you create a project, you cannot delete it (the last I checked I couldn't). The searched address (and it's content) remains saved in the database!

Yes, the projects cannot be deleted since Blockworm ties addresses together through investigation.  If address A and address B are owned by the same person, it knows that regardless of the project.   You can archive the project though.

While typing this, I thought of a way I can alleviate your concern.   When a person archives a project, I can delete the project from the database and recreate an archived version in a new table that is not tied to the account at all.   I can also add a Delete account that will archive all projects then delete your account from the database.   Then, even if your project linked address A to address B, the system cannot prove that any longer.

[seoincorporation]

There should be a no-login way to track the coins.

The issue is abuse.  My personal website is hit with 50 spam registrations a day.  I wouldn't want someone using AI to overwhelm my system.  Do you have any suggestions?

If the problem is the abuse there are some ways to deal with it, you can put some cold down timer for the calls or even some captcha. Even with the login, users can abuse the calls.

The thing here is the server, if you are under a hosting plan where you don't have to pay for the hardware usage, then it will work, but if u are running on an AWS virtual machine where you are paying for the demand, then any abuse could end on a high billing service.

[Vod]

If the problem is the abuse there are some ways to deal with it, you can put some cold down timer for the calls or even some captcha. Even with the login, users can abuse the calls.

The thing here is the server, if you are under a hosting plan where you don't have to pay for the hardware usage, then it will work, but if u are running on an AWS virtual machine where you are paying for the demand, then any abuse could end on a high billing service.

I run a shared host for the website, including a shared mysql server for the projects.  But the actual processing is done on my own hardware so my costs are ~$10/month including energy.

AIs can solve captchas and I don't want to restrict the speed.  If a person has a legit need, they should get the answer as fast as possible, and I don't want to charge for faster service.  I already have a limit on how fast users can create projects - something I could not do if there were no users.