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BitCrumbs
Mason Liang
Bitcoins• A decentralized method for transferring value over the internet.
• Blockchain is a public ledger of pseudonymous transactions
• Each transaction consists of a set of inputs and outputs
Tracking Bitcoins
• Coinbase wants to check the history of bitcoins it receives.
• How can I see where bitcoins from an address have gone?
• Doing this manually is error-prone and tedious.
Text-Based Representation
Graphical Representation
• Height - number of tracked bitcoins at an output.
• Color - fraction of bitcoins in an output which are from the tracked address.
Grouping Transactions
• Number of inputs
• Number of outputs
• Transaction times
• Mining fees simplifies to
About me (Mason Liang)
• EE undergrad at Princeton
• Computational Biology Phd at Berkeley
• Go and pottery in my free time