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Have I Been Known?
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Check if a bitcoin address is likely known to surveillance.
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Joshua Marriage
Have I Been Known? — Check if a bitcoin address is likely known to surveillance.
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HIBK allows you to check if you have a bitcoin address that is likely known to surveillance. Inspired by Have I Been Pwned, it's an open source tool that analyses recent transactions for 'privacy gotchas' and shows relevant obfuscation tools based on results.
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Damjanski
<3 <3 <3
Joshua Marriage
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@damjanski <3 right back at ya mate!
Joshua Marriage
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Meowdy PH 😻 Ever wondered ... Have I Been Known? Hmm.. Yeah, me neither. At least until I realised that... Surveillance ≠ Sound Money When it comes to the dominant 'Store of Value' narrative for bitcoin, turns out fungibility is pretty important. So I decided to build HIBK. It's pretty simple: Check if you have a bitcoin address that is likely known to surveillance:
  1. Paste BTC address
  2. Check txs for privacy gotchas
  3. Discover obfuscation resources
HIBK is a static site hosted on Github Pages and everything is open source. API requests, responses, and privacy analysis all take place locally in the browser. No tracking scripts or any nonsense like that. I've obviously taken my inspiration from Troy Hunt's amazing Have I Been Pwned, and did so after subscribing to his API for quite some time on another side project. While I've taken care to make this a privacy preserving endeavour, using a VPN is advised as I'm not sure what logging occurs on the GH pages end. Looking forward to hearing some feedback and please keep in mind this is barebones v1 and my hopes are to help promote the importance of bitcoin privacy. Cheers!
Joshua Marriage
Maker
Thought I would provide some extra info for those interested. How HIBK works: 1. Request made to Blockstream's Esplora API to get recent transactions for address 2. Response with JSON data for those transactions from blockchain received 3. Privacy analysis script runs client-side in your browser to find 'privacy gotchas' Sousveillance: these links are to block explorers that help you better understand tx privacy Mixers and CoinJoins: tools (mostly wallets) that run implementations of privacy protocols Chain Hopping: non-KYC exchanges brought to my attention by @notsofast on twitter Cheers!
Alex Papageorge
Nice! I have a few coins I can check this out with. I'm not as familiar with the privacy aspect so this can be a good start
Joshua Marriage
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@alex_papageorge Thanks for checking out HIBK. Currently only works with bitcoin, but I will consider adding other coins if there's enough interest. The privacy aspect is all about how you receive, store, and spend your bitcoin. Looking forward to expanding in more detail on the site, rather than only linking to external resources as I currently do. Thanks again!
Sean Phillips
It's a quick check of common issues that might make one Bitcoin less desirable than another.
Joshua Marriage
Maker
@seanphillips14 Thanks so much for the review!
Yannik Heinze
good work josh
Shef Sam
Found this search engine and used it for the opposite reason for which I understand its purpose. My bitcoin core wallet was stolen. All the mining rewards in that wallet.dat sucked out of my possession - would love to know who is CoinJoining my hard earned BTC. Not cool. Not F-ing cool.