Origins of the Bitcoin Whitepaper - Neo4j Tutorial on Digital Forensics and Document Fingerprinting

Explore digital forensics and document fingerprinting using Neo4j in this comprehensive tutorial. Learn how to build digital document fingerprints, represent them as graphs in Neo4j, and establish links between various PDF documents. Investigate the origins of the Bitcoin Whitepaper by analyzing metadata from different versions, including drafts and related papers. Discover insights about document creation, such as timezone information, and compare fingerprints to determine document origins. Apply these techniques to any digital forensics scenario using Neo4j to establish patterns and connections. Follow along as the instructor demonstrates the process step-by-step, from creating sample PDFs to analyzing complex document relationships in the graph database.

- Introduction
- Fingerprinting
- Creating a PDF document sample
- Analyzing a Digital Footprint or Fingerprint of a PDF document
- Creating a graph database model
- Analyzing the Digital Fingerprint of the original Bitcoin Whitepaper
- Launching Neo4j on Docker
- Creating a node for the bitcoin whitepaper in Neo4J
- Creating nodes and relationships for authors, emails, timeszones etc in Neo4j
- Representing our own manually created PDF in Neo4J
- Analyzing the differences between the my PDF document and the Bitcoin Whitepaper in Neo4j
- Analysing the Adam Back hashcash paper in Neo4j
- Analysing an earlier draft of the bitcoin whitepaper in Neo4j
- digital footprint of a Craig Wright publication in Neo4j
- digital fingerprint of the Craig Wright Bitcoin whitepaper in Neo4j
- Recreating the Craig Wright version of the whitepaper using Acrobat
- Conclusion