Analysis of blockchain data is useful for both scienti c research and commercial applications. We present BlockSci, an open-source software platform for blockchain analysis. BlockSci is versatile in its support for di erent 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 rst public release of BlockSci, available at github.com/citp/BlockSci. We seek input from the community to further develop the software and explore other potential applications.
Kalodner et al. REF present BlockSci, an opensource platform for blockchain analysis that supports many blockchains that are schematically similar to Bitcoin.
BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform
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