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Blockchain analytics first movers have a data moat latecomers cannot replicate
“Even if that data is preserved forever no one will be able to amass the same dataset if you're the first mover into that space.”
Levin: Financial institutions won't enter crypto until compliance teams lead
“There is no way that institutions are actually going to get into this space until the compliance team actually leads from the front.”
Chainalysis tracks roughly 80% of transacted Bitcoin value involving known entities
“So, you know, we roughly track around 80% of the value being transacted on the Bitcoin network where we can identify, you know, one of the sides of, ah, of the transaction.”
Investors ignore ZK-Snarks because standard crypto exchanges provide sufficient practical privacy
“Institutional money and retail investors actually don't choose to use that type of privacy-enhanced technology at the moment because they actually have a good deal of privacy afforded to them By the services that they are using, even within Bitcoin.”
Levin: Blockchains are engineered for consistency, not actionable intelligence
“Blockchains are engineered for consistency. They want to tell the truth all the time but not necessarily to, like, yield intelligence.”
Bitcoin entity attribution requires active network participation during the original transactions
“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?”
Chainalysis clusters Bitcoin entities using wallet software fingerprints and protocol structure
“A lot of it's much more about like the structural nature of the Bitcoin blockchain. Actually the wallet that is crafting these transactions leaves fingerprints That we can basically pick up on.”
Chainalysis was contracted by the trustee to investigate Mt. Gox
“We started with, like, the Mt. Gox investigation. Probably some people in this room lost money in Mt. Gox I can imagine. And, you know, we went looking for where it went, and, you know, were contracted by the trustee to look into that and actually built some i…”