Does anyone gain anything from these graph visualisations? The first few times I saw one I was impressed, but this one is so huge and nondescript, I think it's impossible to take much away from it. They're kind of like info graphics; you see a few that make sense, but many more are just jumping on the bandwagon.
So the '324 is FBI on phone handset' comment, is this the FBI transferring $40M from Silk Road wallets to some other wallet? Or is it something else?<p>Also one wonders what is done with the 'evidence' after the case. I could imagine the FBI simply deleting the wallets but does anyone know their actual policy?
At first I imagined a prosecutor frustratedly trying to convince a judge of the validity of an audit trail like this... but in reality it would probably just come down to an expert witness testifying that it is valid.
One great thing about bit coin is that all the metadata is available to everyone. You would be hard pressed to make a fancy chart like this with fiat currency.
Interesting. What's $40MM in bitcoin?<p>I ask because most of these articles are trying to shock you with the exchange value rather than the BTC value.