I agree as a new user

where can we find an FAQ link?

Try getmonero.org, if there's one, it'll be there.

Aloha

tonz0fphun: Hi. With machine learning, there have been two studies (that I am aware of) that try to use machine learning to probabalistically trace Monero transactions. There is the one by xmrack that you saw and Borggren, N., Kim, H.-Y., Yao, L., & Koplik, G. (2020). "Simulated blockchains for machine learning traceability and transaction values in the Monero network."

Both of these studies take a supervised learning/"classification" approach

For now, the classification approach is probably ground already explored unless you have a radically different idea about how to do it.

I haven't seen a study that uses machine learning with a unsupervised learning/"clustering" approach.

Hm, I'm gonna read the paper. But also I suspect that there's an unsupervised approach, however my bet would be with labelled/annotated data if there's a pattern, it will get picked up or detected

Do you have a dataset or a mockup?

For the paper by ACK-J, he has the data available, yes. That's data based on "artificial" transactions on the Monero testnet

I don't think the artificial data for Borggren et al. (2020) is available

We have the real Monero blockchain data easily available in a SQL database curated by neptune

Yeah that's what I understood about ACK-J's PDF. I can try to reach out to the authors and see if they're willing to share any data. I'll go through the paper tonight and get back to you.

If you would like funding, there is the MAGIC Monero Fund (monerofund.org) or the Community Crowdfunding System (ccs.getmonero.org)

Ok thank you :)

tonz0fphun: Feel free to PM me if you have questions while reading