Bitcoin entity attribution requires active network participation during the original transactions
Jonathan Levin · Building a Data Company // Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Apr 9, 2018 · at 7:23
Jonathan Levin, co-founder and COO of Chainalysis, explains why active historical transaction capture creates a defensible data moat for blockchain analytics companies.
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“Actually, you need to be there at the time making transactions on the Bitcoin network in order to get attribution data on, you know you know, is this a gambling site or is this a darknet market?”
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