{"id":26080,"date":"2015-08-12T21:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe65e0092697"},"modified":"2025-01-28T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:27:43","slug":"bitcoin-transaction-tracking-startup-sabr-claims-technology-caught-dpr-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/bitcoin-transaction-tracking-startup-sabr-claims-technology-caught-dpr-easily","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Transaction Tracking Startup SABR Claims Its Technology Could Have Caught DPR Easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/silk-road-under-ddos-attack.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>The increase in bitcoin ransom demands and hacking incidents have alerted international law enforcement agencies and governments about the involvement of bitcoin in illegal activities. This week, bitcoin startup SABR has raised $1 million USD in an early seed funding round for its blockchain monitoring and identification system.<\/p>\n<p>As a consultation-like service, SABR will work with law enforcement agencies to track down bitcoin transactions, how they\u2019re being spent and who owns them. The company stated that its patented technology, data and partnerships enable it to fully track down information about a single or a series of transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSABR integrates data from multiple blockchains, as well as other public and proprietary sources,\u201d the SABR team explained. \u201cSABR\u2019s unique position and partnerships within the network underlying the decentralized digital currency ecosystem provides access and insight otherwise inaccessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team added that following bitcoin transactions is not an efficient method to track down payments, as bitcoin creates a \u201cblind spot.\u201d SABR claimed that its technology could have found the Dread Pirate Roberts, the administrator of the Silk Road, in a few days, instead of the years of covert investigations by the U.S. Govenment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Venturebeat, SABR has already begun to attract the attention of the \u201cU.S. Department of Justice, the White House, and other federal agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of SABR\u2019s clients, individuals or organizations will be assigned SABR engineers and experienced data analysts and develop a close working relationship to ensure that its clients are efficiently using the SABR software, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increase in bitcoin ransom demands and hacking incidents have alerted international law enforcement agencies and governments about the involvement of bitcoin in illegal activities. This week, bitcoin startup SABR has raised $1 million USD in an early seed funding round for its blockchain monitoring and identification system. As a consultation-like service, SABR will work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3551,"featured_media":23836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3002,3567],"class_list":["post-26080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-blockchain-analysis","tag-dread-pirate-roberts"],"author_data":{"id":3551,"name":"Joseph Young","nicename":"joseph-young","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1629529456084-1-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silk-road-under-ddos-attack.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}