The Ledger

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Jonathan Levin Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 8:00 Building a Data Company // Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Jonathan Levin Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 17:35 Building a Data Company // Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
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…”
Jonathan Levin Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 1:00 Building a Data Company // Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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