Cryptocurrency investigations – like Bitcoin forensics – usually involve blockchain transaction analysis. You can use blockchain.com Explorer to look up Bitcoin, Etherium, and other blockchain transactions or addresses. However, the site is not very useful when attempting to analyze many transactions. Instead, visualizing the blockchain is much more helpful.

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    Blockchain analysis usually ends by finding a cryptocurrency exchange the suspect uses or when the suspect purchases services using illicit cryptocurrency. Active monitoring may be necessary to watch addresses of interest over time. Additionally, intelligence gathering is helpful when associating cryptocurrency addresses with service providers.

    00:00 What we covered so far
    00:19 Bitcoin blockchain transactions
    00:31 Blockchain.com Explorer
    01:07 Free Blockchain analysis with Maltego Community Edition
    01:30 Start a new investigation
    01:49 Analyze a Bitcoin address
    02:13 Investigate victims paying a suspect
    03:32 Suspect wallet investigation
    04:51 High-level overview of transaction graph
    05:32 Overview of Maltego and similar Blockchain analysis tools
    05:56 Overview of Bitcoin transaction forensics

    We use Maltego Community Edition with the blockchain.com transform to analyze WannaCry Ransomware Bitcoin transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Maltego will create a graph where nodes are Bitcoin addresses, and edges are the direction of transactions. Maltego can automatically generate node graphs based on either address relationships or blockchain transactions.

    Getting started with Bitcoin forensics Maltego and the blockchain transform is an easy and free way to begin. Maltego can also include intelligence from many other sources, not just the Bitcoin blockchain. You can use investigation intelligence to enrich your graphs and find suspects’ true identities behind the addresses.

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    2. awsome didnt know a lot of this existed, always learning something new, been trying to track some ada that arrived at nexo but it never showed in my balance even though i could see it did arrive in the block chain been waiting for nexo to reapond but customer service is no good 2 months now and havent heard anything from them. thanks for the video awsome

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