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The coin flow graph is terrific: http://wizsec.jp/images/theft_flow.svg http://wizsec.jp/images/theft_flow.svg Is this type of visualization common in Bitcoin?

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

barkingcat 9y ago
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.
- kzrdude 9y ago
  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.
- h1d 9y ago
  You sound like the poster dismissing DropBox's idea saying it could be manually done easily.
showerst 9y ago
These are called Sankey diagrams.
- codezero 9y ago
  I read this as Snakey and it still works :)
- sonium 9y ago
  Actually more specific is 'alluvial diagram' [1] since the style emphasizes a 'flow' character. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram
frew 9y ago
The graph itself is d3: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/ https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/
- jcousins 9y ago
  I vaguely recalled seeing these in practice somewhere before - it was ntopng netflow visualisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng#/media/File:Ntopng.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng#/media/File:Ntopng.png
wmf 9y ago
These might get you about half way there: https://github.com/znort987/blockparser https://github.com/znort987/blockparser https://web.archive.org/web/20161027122545/http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/data/bitcoin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161027122545/http://compbio.cs...

barkingcat 9y ago

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.

kzrdude 9y ago
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.
h1d 9y ago
You sound like the poster dismissing DropBox's idea saying it could be manually done easily.

showerst 9y ago

These are called Sankey diagrams.

codezero 9y ago
I read this as Snakey and it still works :)
sonium 9y ago
Actually more specific is 'alluvial diagram' [1] since the style emphasizes a 'flow' character. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_diagram [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram

frew 9y ago

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

jcousins 9y ago
I vaguely recalled seeing these in practice somewhere before - it was ntopng netflow visualisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng#/media/File:Ntopng.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntopng#/media/File:Ntopng.png

wmf 9y ago

These might get you about half way there: https://github.com/znort987/blockparser https://github.com/znort987/blockparser https://web.archive.org/web/20161027122545/http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/data/bitcoin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161027122545/http://compbio.cs...