Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1

Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by NelsonMinar on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:16PM (#14859240)

The coin flow graph is terrific: http://wizsec.jp/images/theft_flow.svg

Is this type of visualization common in Bitcoin? Is it a tool anyone can easily use?

Edit, let me restate my question. "Is there a tool that generates Sankey diagrams from blockchain data that is easy to use?"

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by frew on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:23PM (#14859307)

The graph itself is d3: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by jcousins on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:04PM (#14859753)

I vaguely recalled seeing these in practice somewhere before - it was ntopng netflow visualisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng#/media/File:Ntopng.png

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by wmf on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:15PM (#14862158)

These might get you about half way there:

https://github.com/znort987/blockparser

https://web.archive.org/web/20161027122545/http://compbio.cs...

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by showerst on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:22PM (#14859304)

These are called Sankey diagrams.

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by sonium on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:27PM (#14859353)

Actually more specific is 'alluvial diagram' [1] since the style emphasizes a 'flow' character.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by codezero on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:41PM (#14860121)

I read this as Snakey and it still works :)

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by barkingcat on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:20PM (#14859277)

This is relatively easy to do since all bitcoin traffic is transparent and open for easy tracking. You can probably do this in gnuplot.

Anyone who has the blockchain downloaded can run their own analysis algorithms on it - it's already there for you to see.

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by kzrdude on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:21PM (#14859903)

I imagine the difficult part is to group transactions and addresses into understandable entities. A good tool could certainly make incremental diagrams that help improving that grouping though.

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Re:Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1 by h1d on Saturday July 29, 2017 @07:57PM (#14883624)

You sound like the poster dismissing DropBox's idea saying it could be manually done easily.

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