Hi fergalr,

thanks for your paper and your responses here. Welcome to the forum.

Have you given any thought to other applications these tools and this type of network analysis could be used for - for example could it be used somehow to estimate the real size of the bitcoin economy, i.e. differentiate the purchase of goods and services from just shifting bitcoins to different addresses owned by the same person? Or identify the different exchanges and see the flow of bitcoins to them and thus if you see a larger than normal flow of bitcoins to a particular exchange it might indicate that a sell-off is likely and predict a price drop before it happens? Maybe nothing like this is possible, just thinking out loud and wondering about possible other uses for this type of analysis.

thanks
k