Thesis Details

Platform for Cryptocurrency Address Collection

Master's Thesis Student: Bambuch Vladislav Academic Year: 2019/2020 Supervisor: Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D.
Czech title
Platforma pro sběr kryptoměnových adres
Language
English
Abstract

The goal of this work is to build a platform for collecting and displaying metadata about cryptocurrency addresses from public and also dark web. To achieve this goal, I use web parsing technologies written in PHP. Challenges accompanying a website parsing are solved by scaling capabilities of Apache Kafka streaming platform. The modularity of the platform is accomplished by microservice architecture and Docker containerization.    The work creates a unique way how to search for potential crypto criminal activities, that appeared outside of the blockchain world, by building a web page application on top of this platform (that serves for managing the platform and exploring the extracted data). The platform architecture allows adding loosely coupled modules smoothly where the Apache Kafka mediates communication of the modules.     The result of this article is meant to be used for cybercrime detection and prevention. Its users can be law enforcement authorities or other agencies and users interested in reputations and credibility of cryptocurrency addresses.

Keywords

web scraping, cryptocurrencies, crypto crime detection, Apache Kafka, microservices, Laravel

Department
Department of Information Systems FIT BUT
Degree Programme
Information Technology, Field of Study Information Technology Security
Files
Status
defended, grade B
Date
15 July 2020
Reviewer
Pluskal Jan, Ing., Ph.D.
Committee
Drahanský Martin, prof. Ing., Dipl.-Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), předseda
Lengál Ondřej, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), člen
Malinka Kamil, Mgr., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), člen
Orság Filip, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), člen
Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT), člen
Citation
BAMBUCH, Vladislav. Platform for Cryptocurrency Address Collection. Brno, 2020. Master's Thesis. Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology. 2020-07-15. Supervised by Veselý Vladimír. Available from: https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/22995/
BibTeX 
@mastersthesis{FITMT22995,
    author = "Vladislav Bambuch",
    type = "Master's thesis",
    title = "Platform for Cryptocurrency Address Collection",
    school = "Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology",
    year = 2020,
    location = "Brno, CZ",
    language = "english",
    url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/22995/"
}

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