BitcoinGraph

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 a similar 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: