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Central bank test lab develops global bitcoin mapping system
A global central bank test lab has designed a prototype bitcoin monitoring system aimed at giving authorities a clearer picture on how, when and where the cryptocurrency is used. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) project, codenamed Atlas, began at the Dutch central bank more than five years ago, but its potential value has been underscored over the last 18 months by a series of chaotic collapses across the crypto industry. Atlas created a "proof of concept" platform that sucks data from both publicly available "on-chain" crypto ledgers as well as harder to source "off-chain" data reported by only some ... (full story)