Evolution of the Bitcoin Address Graph - An Exploratory Longitudinal Study

Erwin Filtz; Axel Polleres; Roman Karl; Bernhard Haslhofer

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-19287-7_11

Evolution of the Bitcoin Address Graph - An Exploratory Longitudinal Study

Erwin Filtz, Axel Polleres, Roman Karl, Bernhard Haslhofer

International Business

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Abstract

Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency, which can be used to execute pseudo-anonymous payments globally within a short period of time and comparably low transaction costs. In this paper, we present initial results of a longitudinal study conducted over the Bitcoin address graph, which contains all addresses and transactions from the beginning of Bitcoin in January 2009 until 31st of August 2016. Our analysis reveals a highly-skewed degree distribution with a small number of outliers and illustrates that the entire graph is expanding rapidly. Furthermore, it demonstrates the power of address clustering heuristics for identifying real-world actors, who prefer to use Bitcoin for transferring rather than storing value. We believe that this paper provides novel insight into virtual currency
ecosystems, which can inform the design of future analytics methods and infrastructures.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel des Sammelwerks	Data Science – Analytics and Applications
Herausgeber*innen	Peter Haber, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Manfred Mayr
Erscheinungsort	Wiesbaden
Verlag	Springer
Seiten	77 - 82
ISBN (Print)	978-3-658-19287-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19287-7_11
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 2017

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Graphsense - Realtime Anomaly Detection in Virtual and Non-Virtual Currency Networks
Polleres, A., Umbrich, J., Filtz, E. & Kirrane, S.
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Evolution of the Bitcoin Address Graph - An Exploratory Longitudinal Study

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