| Title | An open measurement dataset on the Bitcoin P2P Network |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Eisenbarth, Jean-Philippe, Cholez, Thibault, Perrin, Olivier |
| Conference Name | 2021 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) |
| Keywords | bitcoin, Bitcoin p2p network, blockchain, human factors, Metrics, network measurement, Network security, P2P protocol, peer to peer security, Peer-to-peer computing, peer-to-peer security, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Safety, Scalability, security |
| Abstract | The Bitcoin blockchain is managed by an underlying peer-to-peer network. This network is responsible for the propagation of transactions carried out by users via the blocks (which contain the validated transactions), and to ensure consensus between the different nodes. The quality and safety of this network are therefore particularly essential. In this work, we present an open dataset on the peers composing the Bitcoin P2P Network that was made following a well defined and reproducible methodology. We also provide a first analysis of the dataset on three criteria: the number of public nodes and their client version and geographical distribution. |
| Citation Key | eisenbarth_open_2021 |
An open measurement dataset on the Bitcoin P2P Network