Visualizing the Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN operator

Johannes  Mols; Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis

doi:10.1145/3397166.3415278

Visualizing the Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN operator

Johannes Mols, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis

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Abstract

Bitcoin is undoubtedly the most used distributed ledger technology nowadays. Bitcoin's OP_RETURN operator allows for saving arbitrary data on the blockchain. This comes as an extension of Bitcoin's core usage (i.e. cryptocurrency) and opens up a multitude of use cases. These range from benign applications (e.g. ownership of a digital/physical asset) to illegal/malicious scenarios (e.g. blockchain-based botnets). In this paper, we present a system that provides advanced analytic and visual capabilities with regard to the OP_RETURN operator. Furthermore, we showcase a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the OP_RETURN along with a number of interesting findings.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc)
Antal sider	2
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	okt. 2020
Sider	305-306
ISBN (Trykt)	9781450380157
ISBN (Elektronisk)	9781450380157
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3397166.3415278
Status	Udgivet - okt. 2020
Begivenhed	The Twenty-first ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing - Virtuel event Varighed: 1 okt. 2020 → 2 okt. 2020

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Konference	The Twenty-first ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing
Lokation	Virtuel event
Periode	01/10/2020 → 02/10/2020

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