EuroBillTracker

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EuroBillTracker
Ebtlogo.png
de.eurobilltracker.com
motto Accompany the euro notes on their journey since January 1st, 2002
description Banknote tracking
Registration Required for entering banknotes
languages
19 language versions (as of August 3, 2015)

German
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
French
Greek
Italian
Catalan
Latvian
Lithuanian
Dutch
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Swedish
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish

owner European Association of EuroBillTrackers
Published 2002
Members 183,352 (as of January 1, 2017)
status active

EuroBillTracker ( EBT ) is an international and non- commercial project that investigates the global migration of euro banknotes . To do this, users enter the serial number and printer code of their banknotes on the eurobilltracker.com website, as well as the location where they received them.

The name is made up of the currency Euro and the terms Bill ( AE : banknote ) and Tracker ( Engl. : Tracker , tracker). The populating of banknotes in the EBT database is in German as well tracken referred. If a ticket was recorded by more than one user, it is referred to as a hit or hit .

The project was inspired by Where's George , a similar website in the USA .

description

The combination of the value level and the serial number means that each banknote is unique . The migration of a banknote can be traced as soon as at least two people have entered their data together with the time and location. From this, EBT calculates how many kilometers (as the crow flies ) this ticket has covered in what time, shows the hike on a map and prepares the result statistically. In addition, with each entry, the page decrypts in which printer and for which country the ticket was printed.

There are also numerous statistics and rankings , e.g. B. about the most active users, cities , regions and countries , about their development over time or about which banknotes have covered the longest distances. Since each country is assigned its own range of serial numbers, EBT also provides information about the mix of banknotes and, since January 2002, has been showing monthly how the number of banknotes recorded in each country in the euro zone is distributed across the various national number ranges.

Since the diffusion of banknotes follows the same mathematical rules as the spread of particles or diseases , EBT is not only used as a hobby , but also as a data source for scientific , especially physical studies .

Overview

In December 2018, over 189,000 participants were registered and more than 182 million banknotes with a total value of over 3.35 billion euros were recorded. Over 1.05 million of these entries, statistically speaking about every 173rd, is a hit.

Most of the users are from Finland . This is where most of the hits are found, although by far the greatest number of notes are entered in Germany . Outside the euro zone , Switzerland is the most active country and occupies a higher position in the ranking than Cyprus , which uses the euro as the official currency.

In an international comparison of cities, Vienna leads by a large margin and has over 6.8 million entries. With over 1 million entries each, Berlin , Bochum , Frankfurt am Main , Groningen , Hagen , Helmbrechts , Helsinki , Hilden , Klagenfurt , Kouvola , Laibach , Munich , Nuremberg , Tampere and Lisbon are other strongholds of the project. (As of August 3, 2015)

Community

Although the tracking of the banknotes is largely anonymous ( an e-mail address is sufficient for registration ), an active community has developed via the associated Internet forum .

Since 2004 at least one large international meeting (EBTM) has taken place in a European metropolis, the venue of which is determined by the members. Barcelona was chosen for the 2011 summer meeting . The meeting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of EBT in 2012 was held in Frankfurt am Main . In 2013 Rotterdam hosted the summer meeting. In addition, there are national and regional meetings across Europe at irregular intervals, as well as various round tables that are organized by members on site.

With the establishment of the non-profit association European Association of EuroBillTrackers as the operator of EBT, the project was placed on a broader basis. Those who want to help shape it have the opportunity to join the association. The annual fee is primarily used to finance web hosting .

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

statistics

Statistics on the probability of a hit. Green indicates a higher probability. (As of June 2011)

The following table shows the number of notes entered, the number of hits and the probability of hits in the years 2002 to 2015. The hit rate is defined as the quotient of the number of hits divided by the number of notes entered. As the right picture shows, the hit probability varies from region to region. Countries with a high number of banknotes entered (such as Finland, the Netherlands or Belgium) have a significantly higher probability of being hit compared to countries with only a low entry rate (such as Greece or Ireland).

year Bills Hit Hit probability
2002 531.074 159 1: 3340
2003 1,016,350 596 1: 1706
2004 3,321,014 5,896 1: 563
2005 7,375,260 31,057 1: 237
2006 10,844,379 50,454 1: 215
2007 13,704,577 70,878 1: 193
2008 14,823,733 93,255 1: 159
2009 16.186.605 115,851 1: 140
2010 15.165.551 107.220 1: 141
2011 14,707,014 101,340 1: 145
2012 14,223,782 93,998 1: 151
2013 13,666,081 64,281 1: 213
2014 13,016,118 70,080 1: 186
2015 12,484,716 76,341 1: 164
2016 11,852,885 74.192 1: 160

Since the participants prefer to enter banknotes with low denominations, the probability of hits for these notes is highest (as of January 1, 2017):

Value grade Bills Hit Hit probability
5 € 66.789.184 563.931 1: 118
10 € 39.040.248 175,737 1: 222
20 € 33.295.763 156.012 1: 213
50 € 20,116,595 39,384 1: 511
100 € 2,802,791 3,273 1: 856
€ 200 337.710 584 1: 578
500 € 549.298 624 1: 880

history

EBT was started by the French programmer Philippe Girolami (Giro) and has been active since the introduction of euro cash on January 1, 2002. The first entry was made at 2:56 a.m. in Paris . The first certificate from the German-speaking area was entered in Hamburg on January 8th . Before that, there were already first activities in Belgium (January 5th) and the Netherlands (January 7th).

Anssi Johansson (Avij) has been running the site since 2003, which has been further developed since 2005 with additional support from Marko Schilde (Nerzhul). The webmasters are assisted by a number of active users who take care of translations, forum administration, email support and numerous other tasks. Over time, users of the site have developed additional programs with which extensive personal statistics can be generated or which filter their own database for entries that are of interest for various games in the EBT forum.

In September 2005, according to an entry from Liège , EBT comprised ten million registered banknotes and published an official press release in eight languages on the occasion .

A conflict arose on December 24, 2007 when Philippe Girolami's domain www.eurobilltracker.com was re-registered on a new server to which the other two webmasters had no access and where the entire website and database were copied without their knowledge had been. This was preceded by the fact that Girolami intended to commercialize the project through advertising banners, which was not approved by the other two webmasters. Johansson and Schilde then reactivated the previous server under the new domain www.eurobilltracker.eu . Thus there were temporarily two separate versions of the project, whereby the volunteers had announced that they would only work on the version under the .eu address.

In the following dispute, Girolami referred to his status as the domain owner and creator of EBT, while the other side argued that he had not taken care of the project for years and that the website had since been operated and financed by Johansson alone, and the vast majority Part of their source code now came from Schilde.

On January 3, 2008, the three webmasters met in Paris and agreed to merge the pages again and in Belgium a non-profit organization called the European Association of Euro Bill Tracker to found as registered owner of the domain, website and database to which the intellectual property of Eurobilltracker was transferred. Since January 12, 2008 the databases of both sides have been merged again and do not contain any advertising. Both domains point to the same server.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Banknotes: The Great Toad Migration. In: stern.de. December 18, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jennifer Saranow: Follow the Money - WSJ. In: wsj.com. December 9, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Möseneder: Money track on the Internet . In: Der Standard , Vienna, July 7, 2004
  4. ↑ Frequently asked questions about euro banknotes. In: bundesbank.de. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ EuroBillTracker - statistics (mix). In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ralf Krauter: Where the euro travels. In: ftd.de. July 17, 2005, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; accessed on April 18, 2019 .
  7. ^ Gerhard Öhlinger: Reunion with Euros . In: Salzburger Nachrichten , Salzburg, February 17, 2006
  8. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Statistics. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ EuroBillTracker - statistics (notes). In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  10. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Ranking lists (countries). EBT ranking of countries by user. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Ranking lists (countries). EBT ranking of the countries by hits. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Ranking lists (countries). In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Ranking lists (locations). Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  14. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Register again. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Vote for the date for the S-EBTM2011 in Barcelona - EuroBillTracker. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  16. ↑ 10th year anniversary meeting: Vote for the city - EuroBillTracker. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. May 8, 2011, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  17. ↑ S-EBTM 2013 Rotterdam: General information - EuroBillTracker. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Where is the money going? . In: Die Presse of May 6, 2004
  19. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Sheet Music Report. First EBT entry. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. January 1, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  20. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Sheet Music Report. First entry from Germany. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. January 8, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  21. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Sheet Music Report. First entry from Belgium. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. January 6, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  22. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Sheet Music Report. First entry from the Netherlands. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. January 7, 2002, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  23. ↑ EuroBillTracker - FAQ / Help. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  24. ↑ EuroBillTracker - Press. In: de.eurobilltracker.com. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  25. ↑ helloggs: EBT.com vs. EBT.eu - EuroBillTracker. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. December 25, 2007, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  26. ↑ a b Anssi Johansson: Call, Rumors, the EBT-Tool, Wap and more ... - Page 5 - EuroBillTracker. Conflict 2007: Statement by A. Johansson. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. December 26, 2007, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  27. ^ Philippe Girolami: Call, Rumors, the EBT-Tool, Wap and more ... - Page 5 - EuroBillTracker. Conflict 2007: Statement from Fr. Girolami. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. December 26, 2007, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Markus Schilde: EBT.com vs. EBT.eu - Page 6 - EuroBillTracker. Conflict 2007: Statement by M. Schilde. In: forum.eurobilltracker.com. December 25, 2007, accessed April 18, 2019 .