Compliance & flows · Flow analysis

Bitcoin flow analysis: trace fund movement on-chain

Bitcoin flow analysis follows value through the chain: from one address to the next, across clusters of addresses that move together, and toward or away from labeled entities like exchanges, miners and services. Because inputs link to the outputs they spend, BitcoinDatabase can trace these flows step by step over the fully-indexed chain, with exposure summaries and entity-label context along the way.

Map flows over the API, build multi-hop traces in SQL, or review them visually on a dashboard. For compliance use, this is tooling that surfaces flow data and risk signals to support your team's own review; it makes no accusations, proves no identity, and offers no deanonymization claims. Informational data only, not legal or financial advice.

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Why it works

What you get with flow analysis

Step-by-step tracing

Because each input spends a specific output, flows can be followed transaction by transaction across hops over the fully-indexed chain.

Clusters and exposure

See flows aggregated across address clusters and summarized as exposure to labeled entity categories, as informational context for review.

Compliance tooling

Flow data and risk signals support a regulated team's own analysis. The platform surfaces evidence; your compliance function decides.

What it handles

The indexed Bitcoin chain, queryable your way

Look up an address, a transaction, a UTXO, the rich list or an on-chain metric, by REST API, SQL or dashboard. The same authoritative data, reconciled block-by-block against the canonical chain, without running a node.

Trace fund flows between addresses
Follow multi-hop paths across clusters
Summarize exposure to labeled entities
Surface risk signals for review
Map flows via API, SQL or dashboard

GET /v1/address/{addr} query result

200 · JSON

{
  "address": "bc1qxy2k…l0wdv8",
  "balance_btc": 68432.10,
  "balance_usd": 4612165420,
  "tx_count": 1284,
  "unspent_outputs": 37,
  "first_seen": "2014-02-09"
}

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Why BitcoinDatabase

One platform, queryable three ways

Not a raw node to sync, not an indexer to build, and not five vendors to stitch together. The fully-indexed Bitcoin blockchain, available as a REST API, as SQL, and as dashboards, on one authoritative dataset.

REST API

Typed JSON for addresses, transactions, balances, UTXOs and metrics. Drop it into apps, wallets, explorers and agents with curl, Python or our SDKs.

SQL access

Run SQL directly against the indexed Bitcoin dataset for ad-hoc analysis, cohorts and exports, the same data the API and dashboards read from.

Compliance-first

Informational on-chain data and analytics only. Entity labels and flow tracing are framed as tooling to support a regulated team's own review, not accusations.

Good questions

Questions about flow analysis

Each transaction input spends a specific earlier output, so funds can be followed step by step across hops and address clusters. BitcoinDatabase does this over the fully-indexed chain and summarizes exposure to labeled entities as context.

No. It surfaces on-chain flow data and risk signals to support a compliance team's own review. It makes no accusations, no identity proofs and no deanonymization claims, and it is informational data, not legal or financial advice.

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