EuroBillTracker

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Euro Bill Tracker (EBT ) is an international and non-commercial project, which examines the global migration of euro banknotes. For this purpose, enter the user on the website eurobilltracker.com serial number and code printing their banknotes, and the place where they have received them.

The name is composed of the euro currency and the terms bill ( AE: banknote ) and Tracker (English: tracker, tracker ). The Populate banknotes in the EBT database is in German commonly referred to as tracken. If a bill of more than one user recorded, one speaks of a hit or hit.

The project was inspired by Where's George, a similar site in the United States.

Description

The combination of denomination and serial number of each note is unique. The migration of a bill can be tracked as soon as at least two people have recorded their data together with time and geographic location. EBT calculates how many miles ( straight line ) this bill has come in which time, the hike is on a map and prepares the result statistically. In addition, the page is decrypted at each entry in which printing and the country for which the certificate was printed.

There are also numerous statistics and rankings, for example of the most active users, cities, regions and countries whose development have traveled the longest distances in the course of time, or what bills. Since each country is assigned its own range of serial numbers, EBT also informed about the mixing of the banknotes and has, since January 2002, monthly, how distributed the detected in any country in the euro zone amount of notes on the various national numbering range.

Since the diffusion of the banknotes follow the same mathematical rules as the propagation of particles or diseases EBT is used not only as a hobby, but also as a data source for scientific, in particular, physical examinations.

Survey

Currently, over 186,000 participants have registered and collected more than 126.5 million banknotes with a total value of over 2.4 billion euros. About 724,000 of these entries, statistically, ie about every 175te, is a hit.

Most users come from Finland, where there is also the most hits though most bills are entered in Germany. Outside the euro zone, Switzerland is the most active country, and dressed in a higher rank than Estonia or Cyprus that use the euro as its official currency.

In international comparison, the cities of Vienna leads by a wide margin and more than 4 million entries. Each with over one million entries Berlin, Bochum, Frankfurt am Main, Groningen, Hagen, Helmbrechts, Helsinki, Hilden, Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Munich and Nuremberg are other strongholds of the project.

(As of 1 January 2013)

Community

Although the tracking of the notes is largely anonymous ( for registration please send an e - mail address), has evolved over the associated internet forum an active community.

Since 2004, every year at least a major international meetings ( EBTM ) in a European metropolis takes place, the venue is determined by the members. For the Summer Meeting 2011 Barcelona was chosen. The focus of the meeting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of EBT in 2012 took place on Main in Frankfurt. 2013 Rotterdam will host the Summer meeting. In addition, there are in Europe at irregular intervals national and regional meetings as well as various round tables, which are organized by local members.

With the founding of the nonprofit association European Association of Euro Bill Tracker as an operator of EBT, the project was put on a broader basis. If you want to help shape it, has the opportunity to join the association. The annual contribution is primarily used to finance the hosting.

Regardless of a formal membership are all functions of EBT to all users free of charge.

Statistics

The following table shows the number of bills entered, the number of hits obtained and the probability of a hit in the years 2002 to 2013 represents the hit rate is the quotient of the number of hits this divided by the number of bills entered defined. The probability of a hit, as the right picture shows regional variations. Countries with a high number of input notes ( such as Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium ) have a much higher hit probability when compared with countries that have only a low input rate ( for example, Greece or Ireland).

Since preferred notes are entered with low value levels of the participants, the hit probability for these bills the highest ( effective 1st January 2014):

History

EBT was started by the French programmer Philippe Girolami ( Giro ) and has been active since the euro cash changeover on 1 January 2002, the first entry was made at 2:56 clock in Paris. The first note from the German speaking was entered in Hamburg on January 8, previously there were already first activities in Belgium (January 5 ) and the Netherlands (January 7 ).

Since 2003 operates Anssi Johansson ( Avij ) the page that will be further developed with additional support from Marko shields ( Nerzhul ) since 2005. The Webmaster will be supported by a number of active users, who take care of translations, the administration of the forum, e -mail support, and numerous other tasks. Over time, additional programs have been developed by users of the page, which can generate far-reaching personal statistics or filter their own database for entries that are for various games in the EBT Forum of interest.

In September 2005, EBT included for an entry from Liege 10 million registered notes and published on this occasion an official press release in eight languages.

To a conflict occurred on December 24, 2007, when the domain www.eurobilltracker.com was re-registered by Philippe Girolami to a new server, to which the other two webmaster did not have access and where previously the complete website including database copied without their knowledge had been. Was preceded by that Girolami intended to commercialize the project through banners that had not been approved by the other two webmasters. Then reactivated Johansson and shields the previous server to the new domain www.eurobilltracker.eu. Thus temporarily passed two separate versions of the project, the volunteers had announced their intention to cooperate only on the version of the. Eu address.

In the following discussion Girolami referred to his status as a domain owner and creator of EBT while the other side argued that this had not taken care of the project for years, the site has since been solely operated and financed by Johansson and the predominant part of their source code now comes from shields.

On January 3, 2008, the three Webmasters met in Paris and agreed to bringing together the pages again and a non-profit organization called the European Association of Euro Bill Tracker to set up in Belgium as the registered owner of the domain, website and database, to the intellectual property euro Bill Tracker has been transferred. Since 12 January 2008, the databases of both sides are brought together again and contain no advertising. Both domains point to the same server.