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arXiv:1709.02489cs.CR

BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform

Harry Kalodner, Steven Goldfeder, Alishah Chator, Malte Möser, Arvind Narayanan

Abstract

Analysis of blockchain data is useful for both scientific research and commercial applications. We present BlockSci, an open-source software platform for blockchain analysis. BlockSci is versatile in its support for different blockchains and analysis tasks. It incorporates an in-memory, analytical (rather than transactional) database, making it several hundred times faster than existing tools. We describe BlockSci's design and present four analyses that illustrate its capabilities. This is a working paper that accompanies the first public release of BlockSci, available at https://github.com/citp/BlockSci. We seek input from the community to further develop the software and explore other potential applications.

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cs.CRCryptography and Security cs.DBDatabases

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  1. 68% of total Ethereum transaction value controlled by one system 1 comment

    • Yes. Here's a paper claiming to trace through various mixing services. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02489.pdf

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  2. BlockSci: A high-performance tool for blockchain science and exploration 1 comment

    • BlockSci is an academic research project at Princeton, but we're committed to maintaining it as open-source software, and we hope it's more broadly useful. If you're interested in using it or contributing to it, here's a list of ideas that we'd love to see implemented. 1. Create…

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