EuroBillTracker

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EuroBillTracker is a website designed for tracking Euro banknotes. It was inspired by the U.S. currency tracking website Where's George?.[1][2]

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[edit] Characteristics

A 5-euro banknote with its serial number highlighted. All euro banknotes also contain a second serial number, less evident, which is written in different places depending on the note value.
A 5-euro banknote with its serial number highlighted. All euro banknotes also contain a second serial number, less evident, which is written in different places depending on the note value.

EuroBillTracker (EBT) is an international non-profit volunteer team dedicated to tracking Euro notes around the world. The site is made up of people who simply enter the information from the notes in their wallet. Each user enters the serial numbers and location information for each note they obtain into EuroBillTracker. A user can then see any comments from other people who have had that note. From this information, the site extracts:

  • Diffusion information: Each Euro country has its own range of note serial numbers and from this information EBT can generate diffusion graphs that tell us how the notes travel to other countries. See the Diffusion section for more information.
  • Tracking information: When a note is re-entered, the users who previously entered it are notified via email. These hits can be seen in the statistics section.
  • Statistics and rankings: Who enters the most notes, which are the top countries? Where are the notes currently situated?

Euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation on January 1 2002 and EBT has been tracking notes since then. The site was initially created by Philippe Girolami (giro). Anssi Johansson (avij) has been assisting with running the site since mid-2003. Site translation and various other tasks are handled by a group of active EBT users.

EuroBillTracker is in no way affiliated with the European Union, European Central Bank, national central banks or other financial institutions. Using EBT is completely free.

[edit] Statistical Facts

A map of Eurozone according to their EBT hit ratio, i.e. the ratio between the number of banknotes registered at least two times and the total number of banknotes entered in a country. Green represents a higher ratio.
A map of Eurozone according to their EBT hit ratio, i.e. the ratio between the number of banknotes registered at least two times and the total number of banknotes entered in a country. Green represents a higher ratio.

[edit] Core Figures

As of February 2007:

  • Total value - over 547,000,000 Euro
  • Number of users - over 100,700 users
  • Number of banknotes - over 26,155,000 banknotes
  • Number of interesting hits - over 98,500

[edit] Number of banknotes entered (history)

  • 2002 - 540,640
  • 2003 - 1,040,926
  • 2004 - 3,402,230
  • 2005 - 7,603,125
  • 2006 - 11,669,500

[edit] Trivia

The first user to obtain the magical number of entering 100.000 Euro banknotes into EuroBillTracker was bhoeyb from Belgium.

[edit] Software and hardware

EuroBillTracker is hosted on a dedicated server (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual-core processor and 4GB memory) which is located in Espoo (Finland).

EuroBillTracker uses the following software:

[edit] See also

[edit] External link

[edit] References

  1. ^ Euro Bill Tracker Reaches 50,000 Registered Bills In 15 Weeks Time, press release published on April 12, 2002
  2. ^ Saranow, J: "Follow the Money", The Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2002
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