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Topic: [ANN] LostCoins service attempt to help scams victims (Read 121 times)

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Hi

I started looking at blockchains in summer 2017, I looked at a lot of crypto-currencies
and after discovering mybtgwallet.com scam, I tried to discover through Bitcoin public ledger
where the stolen coins moved: I spent some hours with blockexplorer.com
(and a notepad to draw a transactions history graph) until I was lost in the ledger...

I needed a specific explorer dedicated to that purpose: showing only spent transactions,
greater than a threshold amount, and summing spent transactions to same address.
I wanted also to learn more about blockchain and Angular, so I crafted LostCoins Explorer: http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/.

http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/assets/lostcoins_screenshot.png

For user friendly discovery, I selected known scam Bitcoin adresses and drill down into biggest transactions.
I found interesting addresses with regular transfers to same recipients with rounded amounts (http://lostcoins.jpca.fr/addr/1KS5rUBtvgd62eAz5rKdGbeXwM2odfNWXj).
Sometimes I found where some coins rest and monitoring/owner investigation is needed.
Sometimes, like for mybtgwallet.com, the transactions pass through some mixing service addresses :-(

It's a first stage prototype and before investing more time and money on it I need blochain experienced user opinion:
is this service useful? specially for scam victims.

Thanks for your time and feedbacks!
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