BlockTrail's CTO Ruben De Vries presentation at the Bitcoin National Congress. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2015-06-24

1. Ruben de Vries - CTO, BlockTrail
@rubensayshi

2. What is BlockTrail?
We give the world the ability to do more with Bitcoin

3. Developers Platform
- Blockchain Data API
- Wallet & Transactions API
- Block Explorer
Your Bitcoin Infrastructure Company

4. - Send & Receive bitcoin
- Setup a bitcoin exchange
- Build a bitcoin ATM Network
- Create a Wallet Service
- Build a Remittances Platform
- Enable Merchant Payments
- Build a Casino
- Build a Darknet Marketplace
- And More ...
Thinks you can do with our API

5. How safe is it to sell drugs using
bitcoin?

6. - Every Bitcoin transaction is stored / secured in the
Blockchain
- All Blockchain data is publicly available
- Rewriting history costs billions at the current amount of
mining power
The Blockchain is forever

7. - Every transaction sends bitcoin from one address to
another address.
- An address is
- a pseudo-identity
- comparable in functionality to a bank account number
- You can have an infinite amount of addresses
Bitcoin is pseudo-anonymous

8. - Most transactions consist of more than
just 1 sending and 1 receiving address
- Pattern & Cluster analysis
- Identify addresses that are the same entity
- Find one link to the real world
Every transaction leaks a bit of
privacy

9. - Pattern analysis for AML & Fraud is nothing new!
- 3 Bitcoin startups specialising in analysis
- Coinbase actively freezing accounts
AML & Fraud

10. How safe is it to sell drugs using
bitcoin?