Towards open data blockchain analytics: a Bitcoin perspective.

ABSTRACT: Bitcoin is the first implementation of a technology that has become known as a 'public permissionless' blockchain. Such systems allow public read/write access to an append-only blockchain database without the need for any mediating central authority. Instead, they guarantee access, security and protocol conformity through an elegant combination of cryptographic assurances and game theoretic economic incentives. Not until the advent of the Bitcoin blockchain has such a trusted, transparent, comprehensive and granular dataset of digital economic behaviours been available for public network analysis. In this article, by translating the cumbersome binary data structure of the Bitcoin blockchain into a high fidelity graph model, we demonstrate through various analyses the often overlooked socia

SUBMITTER: McGinn D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124103 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature