Bitcoin Monitoring

The results presented here were measured using the infrastructure originally set up for this work:
Timing Analysis for Inferring the Topology of the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network (Presentation)
@inproceedings{
	neudecker-atc16,
	title = {Timing Analysis for Inferring the Topology of the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network},
	author = {Neudecker, Till and Andelfinger, Philipp and Hartenstein, Hannes},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC)},
	year = {2016},
	month = {July}
}
The analysis of address messages is described in this upcoming work:
Short Paper: What Peer Announcements Tell Us About the Size of the Bitcoin P2P Network (Presentation)
@inproceedings{grundmann-fc22,
	title={Short Paper: What Peer Announcements Tell Us About the Size of the Bitcoin P2P Network},
	author={Grundmann, Matthias and Amberg, Hedwig and Baumstark, Max and Hartenstein, Hannes},
	year = {2022}
}
The monitoring infrastructure was used to analyze an event in 2021 that allowed to infer the peer degree distribution of public peers in the network:
On the Peer Degree Distribution of the Bitcoin P2P Network (Presentation)
@inproceedings{grundmann-icbc22,
	title={On the Peer Degree Distribution of the Bitcoin P2P Network},
	author={Grundmann, Matthias and Amberg, Hedwig and Baumstark, Max and Hartenstein, Hannes},
	booktitle={2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)},
	year = {2022},
	doi={10.1109/ICBC54727.2022.9805511}
}
Furthermore, the gathered data was used for this work:
Could Network Information Facilitate Address Clustering in Bitcoin? (Presentation)
@inproceedings{neudecker-fc17,
	title={Could Network Information Facilitate Address Clustering in Bitcoin?},
	author={Neudecker, Till and Hartenstein, Hannes},
	year = {2017}
}
A short report on Bitcoin Cash Sybil Nodes on the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network is also based on the collected data (August 2017).
Various other research works used or referenced the data from this Bitcoin monitoring.

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