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**Author:** [@admin](https://bnoc.xyz/u/admin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/about-the-research-category/25 "2025-10-14T12:22:50Z")
A place for sharing and discussing scientific research that touch the Bitcoin network. Feel free to share links to scientific research (papers / publications) that touch on topic related to the Bitcoin Network Operation… --- ## [What Bitcoin research papers to reimplement and validate?](https://bnoc.xyz/t/what-bitcoin-research-papers-to-reimplement-and-validate/196)
**Author:** [@b10c](https://bnoc.xyz/u/b10c)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2026, 8:29am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/what-bitcoin-research-papers-to-reimplement-and-validate/196 "2026-11-04T08:29:51Z")
The Chaincode Labs Bitcoin Open Source Software (BOSS) challenge is considering to have participants revisit, re-implement, and validate existing research papers (using LLMs) as part of their exercises. If you know about… --- ## [Follow-up to data request: research paper on passive, network attack](https://bnoc.xyz/t/follow-up-to-data-request-research-paper-on-passive-network-attack/188)
**Author:** [@cndolo](https://bnoc.xyz/u/cndolo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 19, 2026, 7:26pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/follow-up-to-data-request-research-paper-on-passive-network-attack/188 "2026-10-19T19:26:40Z")
Hi, A few months ago, I posted here requesting packet captures of Bitcoin/LN traffic that I needed for a research project. I got traces from @b10c in time and @jonhbit provided LN traces as well but the paper was alread… --- ## [Address Relay under stress: Attack Characteristics and Measuring Its Effects](https://bnoc.xyz/t/address-relay-under-stress-attack-characteristics-and-measuring-its-effects/164)
**Author:** [@stratospher](https://bnoc.xyz/u/stratospher)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/address-relay-under-stress-attack-characteristics-and-measuring-its-effects/164 "2026-10-09T17:30:19Z")
This is joint work with @mzumsande. It’s a companion piece to this post, digging into the data from the address spam attack. Below is a summary of our analysis. The address spam propagated through normal address gossip.… --- ## [Passive Traffic Analysis of Bitcoin P2P v2](https://bnoc.xyz/t/passive-traffic-analysis-of-bitcoin-p2p-v2/161)
**Author:** [@victorandre957](https://bnoc.xyz/u/victorandre957)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/passive-traffic-analysis-of-bitcoin-p2p-v2/161 "2026-10-09T14:36:06Z")
I started working on this subject after reading the discussion in 0xB10C/project-ideas#12. The question that interested me was relatively simple: after BIP324 removes the cleartext Bitcoin message framing, what can a … --- ## [Invalid blocks catalogue](https://bnoc.xyz/t/invalid-blocks-catalogue/177)
**Author:** [@deadmanoz](https://bnoc.xyz/u/deadmanoz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/invalid-blocks-catalogue/177 "2026-09-24T19:29:41Z")
I’ve written up some research on invalid Bitcoin blocks, alongside a catalogue of 143 established cases spanning 2010 to 2026. These are blocks that met Bitcoin’s PoW requirement but failed a consensus rule. The work st… --- ## [Address Relay under stress](https://bnoc.xyz/t/address-relay-under-stress/163)
**Author:** [@mzumsande](https://bnoc.xyz/u/mzumsande)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/address-relay-under-stress/163 "2026-09-15T16:36:35Z")
This is joint work with @stratospher. From April 2026 to July 2026, there was a period of increased address relay caused by some entity spamming the network. In this post, we will discuss what consequences it had on the… --- ## [Bitcoin Backbone: User Agent Usage](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-backbone-user-agent-usage/172)
**Author:** [@ariard](https://bnoc.xyz/u/ariard)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-backbone-user-agent-usage/172 "2026-09-08T19:16:58Z")
Hello, In the context of bitcoinbackbone.org, we start some real-world networking test on mainnet. As an indicative purpose, the user agent is the following “backbone-alpha:0.0.1”. So far, we’re testing all the initia… --- ## [Recovering pre-2015 Bitcoin stale blocks from merged-mined chains (revisiting Stifter et al. 2018)](https://bnoc.xyz/t/recovering-pre-2015-bitcoin-stale-blocks-from-merged-mined-chains-revisiting-stifter-et-al-2018/120)
**Author:** [@deadmanoz](https://bnoc.xyz/u/deadmanoz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/recovering-pre-2015-bitcoin-stale-blocks-from-merged-mined-chains-revisiting-stifter-et-al-2018/120 "2026-07-22T09:22:39Z")
A common claim around block propagation is that smaller pools stale more often than their hashrate would predict, because they spend a larger fraction of every block race competing against the rest of the network. Antoin… --- ## [Continuous Measurement of Bitcoin-Derived P2P Networks with DaeConn](https://bnoc.xyz/t/continuous-measurement-of-bitcoin-derived-p2p-networks-with-daeconn/148)
**Author:** [@matthias](https://bnoc.xyz/u/matthias)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/continuous-measurement-of-bitcoin-derived-p2p-networks-with-daeconn/148 "2026-07-13T07:54:01Z")
I just came across this recent paper written by a team from Uni Zurich: Demo: Continuous Measurement of Bitcoin-Derived P2P Networks with DaeConn It describes a measurement tool that finds peers in the network and colle… --- ## [Introducing the Merge Mining Monitor](https://bnoc.xyz/t/introducing-the-merge-mining-monitor/146)
**Author:** [@deadmanoz](https://bnoc.xyz/u/deadmanoz)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/introducing-the-merge-mining-monitor/146 "2026-07-02T15:29:08Z")
Following up on my earlier thread about recovering pre-2015 Bitcoin stale blocks from merged-mined chains (here), I kept pulling on that line of work and have created a new tool in service of the Bitcoin monitoring missi… --- ## [Slowish blocks on Signet](https://bnoc.xyz/t/slowish-blocks-on-signet/100)
**Author:** [@Antoine](https://bnoc.xyz/u/Antoine)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2026, 9:59am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/slowish-blocks-on-signet/100 "2026-04-13T09:59:53Z")
BIP 54 was activated on Inquisition at the beginning of the month. BIP 54 introduces a mitigation for blocks that are slow to validate. @ajtowns and i figured it would be interesting to run some slow blocks on Signet. T… --- ## [Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-under-stress-measuring-infrastructure-resilience-2014-2025/94)
**Author:** [@b10c](https://bnoc.xyz/u/b10c)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-under-stress-measuring-infrastructure-resilience-2014-2025/94 "2026-03-07T03:09:38Z")
Wenbin Wu & Alexander Neumueller recently published Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14372 Bitcoin’s design promises resilience through decentralization, y… --- ## [Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies](https://bnoc.xyz/t/multiple-sides-of-36-coins-measuring-peer-to-peer-infrastructure-across-cryptocurrencies/46)
**Author:** [@matthias](https://bnoc.xyz/u/matthias)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/multiple-sides-of-36-coins-measuring-peer-to-peer-infrastructure-across-cryptocurrencies/46 "2025-10-23T13:39:48Z")
The paper Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies by Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach, Lucianna Vonlanthen, Oliver Gasser, and Dennis Trautwein describes measurements of s… --- ## [Monitoring the Bitcoin Network for Malicious Behavior (2017)](https://bnoc.xyz/t/monitoring-the-bitcoin-network-for-malicious-behavior-2017/28)
**Author:** [@b10c](https://bnoc.xyz/u/b10c)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/monitoring-the-bitcoin-network-for-malicious-behavior-2017/28 "2025-10-17T07:12:32Z")
I was recently made aware of this master thesis from 2017 which is very similar to the peer-observer idea. https://cosicdatabase.esat.kuleuven.be/backend/publications/files/these/371 Abstract The decentralised peer-to-… --- ## [Statistical and clustering analysis of attributes of Bitcoin backbone nodes (2023)](https://bnoc.xyz/t/statistical-and-clustering-analysis-of-attributes-of-bitcoin-backbone-nodes-2023/27)
**Author:** [@b10c](https://bnoc.xyz/u/b10c)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/statistical-and-clustering-analysis-of-attributes-of-bitcoin-backbone-nodes-2023/27 "2025-10-14T12:34:52Z")
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720924000733 Abstract Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency. Its network is a Peer-to-peer(P2P) network consisting of distributed nodes. Some of these n… --- ## [Bitcoin Network Topology Discovery Using Timing Analysis (2023)](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-network-topology-discovery-using-timing-analysis-2023/26)
**Author:** [@b10c](https://bnoc.xyz/u/b10c)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-network-topology-discovery-using-timing-analysis-2023/26 "2025-10-14T12:30:52Z")
Abstract The cryptocurrency Bitcoin consists of a set of miners that are connected to a peer-to-peer network. Within said network, messages are efficiently forwarded between clients using a gossip protocol. The exact…