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BitcoinGraph

KevinSmall edited this page Sep 4, 2018 · 2 revisions

Bitcoin Data as a Graph

Let's consider the genuine bitcoin transaction 84f3ff57816950ec4eed0cb800182b91995ceb10effd422f74b1f3c063a1d6b0.

If you take a look at this tx on a conventional block explorer (click the link above), you'll see that it is a transaction involving two addresses, although this is not very intuitive when viewing like this:

This transaction can be represented as a 2D graph like this:

The key to the above diagram is:

Item Description
Addr A Address 1KEyvenDoR2pPGsioybSZhcMKHKvi7JsMk
Addr B Address 17mjNZWa3LVXnpiewKae3VkWyDCqKwt7PV
Tx Transaction 84f3ff57816950ec4eed0cb800182b91995ceb10effd422f74b1f3c063a1d6b0
E1 Edge 1. This edge moves 12273 mBTC into the Tx, and 12232 mBTC from the Tx back into Addr A ("giving change").
E2 Edge 2. This edge moves 40 mBTC from the Tx into Addr B.

The blockchain3D project takes the above logic and projects it into 3D. Keeping the same convention of red cubes for addresses and blue spheres for transactions, we can view bitcoin data like this:

Or like this, a so called "Kadupul Flower" that shows a transaction associated with an exchange, involving very many addresses:

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