Bitcoin Monitoring

We provide snapshots of the Bitcoin network containing information on connected nodes for each day since the beginning of our measurements in July 2015. The datasets are partly anonymized and do not include the IP addresses of peers.

Data-Format

"07e70957688b72aa": {
	"services": 12,
	"versionid": 70015,
	"versionstr": "/Satoshi:0.15.1/",
	"whois": {
		"asn_country_code": "GB",
		"asn": "6871",
		"name": "PLUSNET-DIAL-ADSL"
	},
	"inv": {
		"invperhour": 9662,
		"txperhour": 9651,
		"blockperhour": 7,
		"meandelay": 14590,
		"meandelayblock": 317
	},
	"geo": {
		"lat": 51.5333,
		"long": -0.0833
	},
	"ip": {
		"version": 6,
		"tunnel": "teredo",
		"tunnelclient": "a3bcc4a6ecf811b8",
		"tunnelserver": "084fdaf215473bcf"
	},
	"latency": {
		"icmp": {
			"count": 29,
			"mean": 49,
			"median": 26,
			"variance": 4118
		},
		"btc": {
			"count": 30,
			"mean": 26,
			"median": 26,
			"variance": 0
		}
	},
	"lastConnect": "2018-02-03T03:59:08"
}


Download

  • Download Single Files
  • To download all files (using 4 parallel threads):
    curl -s 'https://www.dsn.kastel.kit.edu/bitcoin/snapshots/?curl' | xargs -P 4 wget

  • Documentation

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    Citation

    If you use our dataset in academic work, you can cite the data as follows:

    @dataset{neudecker__14627526,
      author       = {Neudecker, Till and
                      Grundmann, Matthias and
                      Hartenstein, Hannes},
      title        = {Bitcoin Peer-To-Peer Network Monitoring},
      year         = ,
      publisher    = {Zenodo},
      doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.14627525},
      url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14627525},
    }
    

    License

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    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.