Never Trust a Single Source of Attribution

Core idea

Any one label on an address can be wrong or incomplete. Corroborate attribution across several independent sources before relying on it, for example a block explorer label, an Arkham entity, a community warning, and a sanctions-list entry that all point the same way.

When to use

Any time you are about to act on or report a claim that a given address belongs to a particular person, group, or service.

Example

An address flagged as fake phishing on a block explorer was also labelled Bruvex on Arkham and tied to a named administrator (Richard Hart) and a website through separate lookups. Multiple converging signals raised confidence; a lone label would not have.

Related

The Risk of Public Attribution, Screening Addresses Against OFAC Sanctions, Arkham for Attribution and Visualization