Blockchain inefficiency in the Bitcoin peers network

Abstract We investigate Bitcoin network observing transactions broadcasted into the network during a week from 04/05/2016 and then monitoring their inclusion into the blockchain during the following seven months.We unveil that 42% of the transactions are still not included in the Blockchain after 1 ...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Pappalardo, Tiziana Di Matteo, Guido Caldarelli, Tomaso Aste
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-09-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0159-3