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.
@article{arxiv.1709.02489,
title = {BlockSci: Design and applications of a blockchain analysis platform},
author = {Harry Kalodner and Steven Goldfeder and Alishah Chator and Malte Möser and Arvind Narayanan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02489},
year = {2017}
}