bitcoin-crawler

This is a tool for studying the block propagation patterns of blocks on the Bitcoin network.

This was built for my masters thesis, which has a website here. For an overview on this tool, read Chapter 3.

Installation

You'll need Python 3, and virtualenv. Then do:

virtualenv . -p python3
source bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python client.py

If you don't have IPv6, change the line with ENABLE_IPV6 = True to ENABLE_IPV6 = False.

Help

If you're having trouble with using this, I'd like to help you out. Either open an issue on GitHub, or email me at the email address on my website!