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Bitcoin Heuristics Field Notes is a technical newsletter on blockchain forensics methodology — how analysts trace transactions, where their methods break, and what that means for compliance, privacy, and investigation. Published biweekly.

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Issue 12: The Block Space Market

Mar 25, 202617 min read

Issue 11: The New Tenants

Mar 18, 20267 min read

Issue 10: The Energy Displacement

Mar 14, 202616 min read

Issue 9: The Security Budget Cliff

Mar 11, 202613 min read

Issue 8: The Thermostat

Feb 28, 202631 min read

Issue 7: Privacy Through Economics, Not Cryptography

Feb 16, 20269 min read

Issue 6: Change Address Detection

Feb 16, 202615 min read

Issue 5: What Blockchain Transparency Teaches Us About AI Interpretability

Feb 8, 202610 min read

Issue 4: Taint Analysis

Feb 4, 20268 min read

Issue 3: Peel Chains

Jan 16, 202611 min read

Issue 2: Following Bitcoin Through the Maze

Jan 15, 202614 min read

Issue 1: The Common-Input-Ownership Heuristic

Dec 24, 20249 min read

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