2017/09/08 by Harry Kalodner, Kalodner, Harry, Steven Goldfeder +7 · 1 voice · 9 citations
Computer Science · #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Databases (cs.DB) #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #cs.CR #cs.DB
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.02489
arxiv created 2017/09/08 · openalex publication_date 2017/09/08 · arxiv published 2017/09/08 · arxiv updated 2017/09/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.