Finding Bitfinex’s Bits

When future historians and/or BuzzFeed writers invariably start ranking “the worst weeks in cryptocurrency,” this week might be up there. The Ethereum-Ethereum Classic fork saga continues and Bitcoin Got Gox’d™, this time at Bitfinex.
While Bitcoin remains resilient, every hacked exchange is a tragedy for exchange participants and the broader ecosystem. I personally hope the hacker is apprehended by appropriate law enforcement and funds are recovered for everyone impacted.
The first step toward recovery is following the money (something still possible on Bitcoin). In that vein, and as an exercise for BlockCypher’s growing Analytics toolset, our talented engineer Bryan Cheng built a query to surface the highest-value transactions used to steal Bitfinex funds.