Blockchain Identity Mapping via Testnet Faucet Chat Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Blockchain networks prioritize anonymity, making it difficult to identify the owners of blockchain addresses, which hinders the mapping of real identities to blockchain addresses.
Innovation Solution
A method using test funds on a test blockchain network to map user identities by fetching chat messages, extracting identifying information, and correlating it with blockchain addresses, thereby identifying the owners.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If blockchain networks maintain anonymity for participants, then user privacy and security are improved, but the ability to identify blockchain address owners deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses testnet faucet chat rooms as an intermediary medium to bridge the gap between anonymous blockchain addresses and real user identities. By monitoring chat messages in these controlled environments where users must post their addresses to receive test funds, the system indirectly links identities to addresses without breaking blockchain anonymity on mainnet
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing identifying information from testnet faucet chat rooms before attempting to map it to mainnet blockchain addresses. This advance preparation creates a database of potential identity-address mappings that can be referenced later when analyzing mainnet transactions
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AI summary
Systems and methods for identifying blockchain address owners using test funds are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying blockchain address owners using test funds may include: identifying, by an identity identification computer program executed by an electronic device, a room identifier for an application deployed to a test blockchain network for a main blockchain network; fetching, by the identity identification computer program, chat messages for the room identifier; extracting, by the identity identification computer program, identifying information from the chat messages; and outputting, by the identity identification computer program, the identifying information.