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Chainalysis
Company blog · chainalysis.com/blogbusinesssecurity
Chainalysis is the company blog at chainalysis.com, writing about business and security. Since 2017, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “Blockchain project helping de-anonymize users”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Chainalysis combines blockchain data and AI to help government agencies, crypto businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with crypto.
Most-linked posts?
- Blockchain project helping de-anonymize users11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2017-11-29
- Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency's Role in Terrorism3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-19
- Chainalysis security incident with customers PII compromised2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-30
- /blog/2024-crypto-crime-report-introduction/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
- /blog/2024-crypto-money-laundering/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-23
- Funds Stolen from Crypto Platforms Fall More Than 50% in 20232 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-24
- /blog/lessons-from-the-resolv-hack/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-23
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Yes there are. It is well documented in other countries such as Venezuela or Argentina and some vendors even prefer cryptocurrency because compared to their national currency it is more stable. In addition, there are significant remitance and cross-border payments done in crypto where banking or FX controls make dollars hard to access in countries like Venezuela and certain regions in Africa. Day-to-day transactions…
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on “I wasted years of my life in crypto”Submitted Chainalysis security incident with customers PII compromised as a story · 5 points
HN discussionChainalysis ( https://www.chainalysis.com/ ) |New York, NY| ONSITE | Full Time | no VISA We create transparency for a global economy built on blockchains, enabling banks, business, and governments to have a common understanding of how people use cryptocurrency. Looking for Senior Backend Engineer who is experience in operating their production software as well. Stack: Java, Kafka, AWS, spring boot, postgres, terrafo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”Submitted Blockchain project helping de-anonymize users as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe killer use cases of crypto are not visible to HN readers living in relatively stable North American or European countries. Take a look at the the "Global Crypto Adoption Index Top 20" [1] for the past years and ask yourself, "do Vietnamese people love trading monkey gifs? Are Ukrainians especially susceptible to Ponzi schemes? Is Venezuela laden with techbros?" [2] No. It's that people in many of the countries i…
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on “No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)”Submitted Binance Hack: Tracing the $6.4B Theft to North Korea as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCHAINALYSIS | https://chainalysis.com | Product Manager | London | FULLTIME | ONSITE Chainalysis is one of the fastest growing companies in the cryptocurrency space. Our cryptocurrency investigation and compliance software is used by the world’s leading law enforcement agencies, regulators, and businesses as they combat fraud, human trafficking, money laundering, and other illicit activity involving cryptocurrencies…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Chainalysis Security Incident Information as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCrypto has been one of the largest wealth transfers ever seen. With the level of criminality e.g insider trading, rug pulling, money laundering being unprecedented for a new technology i.e. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-crypto-money-launderin... AI has seen the less well-off parts of society e.g. artists, customer service lose work in favour of making productivity higher for knowledge workers etc.
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on “The tech utopia fantasy is over”Submitted 35% YoY decrease in ransomware payments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionan interesting additional data point is https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/bitcoin-market-data-exchang... — while i don't trust chainalysis in general i suspect that they are probably telling the truth when they say > As of June 2020, roughly 18.6 million Bitcoin has been mined. (...) Another 20% hasn’t moved from its current set of addresses in five years or longer. We consider this lost Bitcoin. which suggests that…
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on “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine”Submitted Introduction to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, cryptocurrencies not cryptography. Bad of me to use that contraction for anything but the latter. Have they really made a significant difference? A bit of searching around resulting in a few articles with anecdotes, and if someone's life really was saved this way of course it made a huge difference to them. But for some macro perspective the best I could find was the "Crypto Adoption Index" ( https://www.chaina…
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on “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine”Submitted Fentanyl-to-Peptide Pivot by Chinese Cartels Supplying Gray-Market Ecosystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> You might well want to criticise the paper, but I think the video is a fair representation of the contents of the paper. I do have criticisms of the paper, but those are milder. They are inherent limitations of the methodology, which the authors seem to recognize. The headline in this HN post is not remotely a fair representation of anything whatsoever in the paper. > Not sure where the number of 68 million wallet…
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on “.01% of Bitcoin holders hold 27% of all Bitcoin”Submitted 2024 Pig Butchering Crypto Scam Revenue Grows 40% YoY as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's good for pseudonymous worldwide transactions. Blockchain analysis software is now a thing, and while costs are high, there are companies that specialize in tracing BTC transactions. [1] It is possible to launder/mix BTC or play a shell game to/from other currencies and wallets and raise analysis costs enough to make it not worthwhile for many adversaries and many targets. While this may seem pedantic, it is imp…
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on “Bitcoin hits $10,000”Submitted Crypto Prediction Markets Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTracking crypto-coins are actually real business [0]. [0]: https://www.chainalysis.com
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on “Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed”Submitted Cryptoasset Realization: How Cryptocurrencies Are Frozen, Seized, and Forfeited as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting. If I go to the website: https://www.chainalysis.com/ Their big tag line is "Building Trust in the Blockchain". I thought BTC was above needing to do that.
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on “Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard”Submitted Stolen Crypto Falls in 2023, but Hacking Remains a Threat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionExchange reporting requirements, existing fiat bank reporting infra, as well as https://www.chainalysis.com/ and similar chain surveillance products. From experience, Chainalysis is already in use with government financial regulators and law enforcement.
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on “Treasury Calls for Crypto Transfers over $10k to Be Reported to IRS”Submitted Funds Stolen from Crypto Platforms Fall More Than 50% in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn 2020, ransomware was $29 million of $4.3 billion in online scams. Digital currencies were involved in $246 million of that $4.3 billion. The rest was wire transfers, gift cards, checks, ACH, and cash. Perhaps we should ban those, too. Blockchain analysis shows less than 1% of transactions are considered illicit. Unless this data is wrong or misleading, then it stands to reason the approach you suggest won't make…
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on “BlackCat ransomware group implodes after apparent payment by Change Healthcare”Submitted Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency's Role in Terrorism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe other side of this coin is all the companies and infrastructure that has popped up, which intentionally or not enables the laundering of ill-gotten cryptocurrency [1]. I have a hard time feeling sympathy here because I consider cryptocurrency to be fundamentally silly. Reversible transactions of fiat currency transactions is a feature not a bug. I feel like securing something like this is practically impossible.…
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on “The $1.5B Bybit Hack”Submitted Russian and North Korean Cyberattack Infrastructure Converge as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- nl · 2022-08-10
This has been the case for a long time, especially on BTC. There are APIs for companies that do this taint tracking for you, eg: https://bitquery.io/products/coinpath , https://www.chainalysis.com/chainalysis-kyt/ , etc
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on “Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions” Submitted Bitfinex Hack Money Launderers Plead Guilty as a story · 1 points
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