What happens if an investigator gets it wrong?
ETH Tbilisi 03 · December 2025 · 2:32
On-chain investigator eyeonchains debates what an investigator should do after wrongly attributing activity or accusing the wrong party. The short clip raises accountability, evidence standards and the human cost of mistakes in blockchain forensics. Recorded at ETH Tbilisi 03.
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From ETH Tbilisi 03, hosted by ETHTbilisi.
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Hello, thank you. I have a final question and that's more of on a moral side, right? So, uh through your work, you're you talked to a lot of people, right? Mostly criminals. However, through that has it happened that while talking to the criminals, you also talked to a couple of innocent people who were just interested in a project and possibly you ruined their life as well, so to say, right? So, how do you reconcile with that? How do you think and has it even happened? I'm just assuming.
So, um in on open-source intelligence, there are not existing um a final target. So, if you searching from blockchain, so you you are you you don't have any type of information who is behind it, what what is his is in the easy easy easy intention. But, uh what you you need to do, you need to um take all information and elaborate it and then you can visualize which is the way if you are searching about an individual did the bad things or simple digital guy want to swipe some
coins. So, you cannot to to know that that fact before. So, you need to process with so many research uh and the cases where I'm using my skills, the main times is only where people doing wrong things. So, like exploiter or like uh I was I I I take it a big attention on the the 10 October uh I find it a big information related the guy who opened the big short on hyperliquid.
And so, this is the the case is that there is the the cases where I'm using my skills. Uh ethically and personally, I'm not I I never did something wrong. I'm I'm I'm a good guy. Uh I believing only in transparency and uh karma. So, personally, I don't I don't take take my I don't use my my skills for some for truck. I info is not real event at the moment.