Add General-Blockchin-Age-of-Spent-Outputs

General-Blockchain-Age-of-Spent-Outputs/construct-edgelist.R

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+# install.packages("data.table")
+# install.packages("RSQLite")
+# install.packages("DBI")
+
+library(data.table)
+library(RSQLite)
+library(DBI)
+
+data.dir <- ""
+# Input data directory here, with trailing "/"
+
+source("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jeffwong/5925000/raw/bf02ed0dd2963169a91664be02fb18e45c4d1e20/sqlitewritetable.R")
+# From https://gist.github.com/jeffwong/5925000
+# Modifies RSQLite's sqliteWriteTable function so as to reject duplicates
+
+con <- DBI::dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), paste0(data.dir, "tx-graph-node-indices.db"))
+
+DBI::dbExecute(con, "CREATE TABLE nodes (
+node TEXT,
+node_index INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+unique(node)
+)")
+
+
+DBI::dbWriteTable(con, "edgelist", 
+  data.frame(origin = character(0), destination = character(0), value = numeric(0),
+    block_height = integer(0), stringsAsFactors = FALSE))
+
+tx.graph.files <- list.files(paste0(data.dir, "tx_graphs/"))
+tx.graph.files <- tx.graph.files[grepl("^tx_graph.+rds$", tx.graph.files)]
+tx.graph.files <- sort(tx.graph.files)
+
+tx.graph.indexed <- vector("list", length(tx.graph.files))
+names(tx.graph.indexed) <- tx.graph.files
+
+for (file.iter in tx.graph.files) {
+  
+  tx.graph.chunk <- readRDS(paste0(data.dir, "tx_graphs/", file.iter))
+  
+  tx.graph.chunk <-
+    rbind(
+      data.table(origin = paste0(tx.graph.chunk$incoming$origin.txid, "-", 
+        formatC(tx.graph.chunk$incoming$origin.position, width = 4, format = "f", flag = "0", digits = 0)),
+        destination = tx.graph.chunk$incoming$txid, 
+        value = NA_real_,
+        block_height = as.integer(tx.graph.chunk$incoming$block_height), stringsAsFactors = FALSE),
+      data.table(origin = tx.graph.chunk$outgoing$txid,
+        destination = paste0(tx.graph.chunk$outgoing$txid, "-", 
+          formatC(tx.graph.chunk$outgoing$position, width = 4, format = "f", flag = "0", digits = 0)),
+        value = tx.graph.chunk$outgoing$value,
+        block_height = as.integer(tx.graph.chunk$outgoing$block_height), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+    )
+  
+  DBI::dbWriteTable(con, "edgelist", 
+    tx.graph.chunk, append = TRUE)
+  
+  cat(file.iter, base::date(), "\n")
+  
+  if (nrow(tx.graph.chunk) == 0) {next}
+  
+  new.nodes <- unique(c(tx.graph.chunk$origin, tx.graph.chunk$destination))
+  
+  nodes.to.insert <- data.frame(node = new.nodes, node_index = NA, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+  
+  mysqliteWriteTable(con, "nodes", 
+    nodes.to.insert, append = TRUE, row.names = FALSE, ignore = TRUE)
+  
+  cat(nrow(nodes.to.insert), "Nodes written\n")
+  
+}
+
+
+DBI::dbWriteTable(con, "edgelist_intermediate_1", 
+  data.frame(origin = character(0), destination = character(0),
+    value = numeric(0), block_height = integer(0),
+    node_index = integer(0), stringsAsFactors = FALSE), overwrite = TRUE)
+
+base::date()
+DBI::dbExecute(con, "INSERT INTO edgelist_intermediate_1 SELECT 
+  origin, destination, value, block_height, node_index FROM
+  edgelist JOIN nodes ON edgelist.origin = nodes.node")
+base::date()
+
+
+DBI::dbExecute(con, 
+  "ALTER TABLE edgelist_intermediate_1 RENAME COLUMN node_index TO origin_index")
+
+
+DBI::dbWriteTable(con, "edgelist_intermediate_2", 
+  data.frame(origin = character(0), destination = character(0),
+    origin_index = integer(0), node_index = integer(0),
+    value = numeric(0), block_height = integer(0), stringsAsFactors = FALSE))
+
+base::date()
+DBI::dbExecute(con, "INSERT INTO edgelist_intermediate_2 SELECT 
+  origin, destination, origin_index, node_index, value, block_height FROM
+  edgelist_intermediate_1 JOIN nodes ON edgelist_intermediate_1.destination = nodes.node")
+base::date()
+
+DBI::dbExecute(con, 
+  "ALTER TABLE edgelist_intermediate_2 RENAME COLUMN node_index TO destination_index")
+
+

General-Blockchain-Age-of-Spent-Outputs/create-dataset-for-analysis.R

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+
+library(data.table)
+library(RSQLite)
+library(DBI)
+# NOTE: Also need lubridate package installed, but not loading it due to 
+# it masking functions
+
+data.dir <- ""
+# Input data directory here, with trailing "/"
+
+
+con <- DBI::dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), paste0(data.dir, "tx-graph-node-indices.db"))
+
+master.edgelist <- DBI::dbGetQuery(con, 
+  "SELECT origin_index, destination_index,block_height,value FROM edgelist_intermediate_2")
+
+master.edgelist.output.created <- master.edgelist[
+  (! is.na(master.edgelist$value)) & master.edgelist$value > 0 , c("destination_index", "block_height")]
+colnames(master.edgelist.output.created) <- c("output_index", "output.created.block_height")
+setDT(master.edgelist.output.created)
+
+master.edgelist.output.spent <- master.edgelist[, c("origin_index", "block_height")]
+colnames(master.edgelist.output.spent) <- c("output_index", "output.spent.block_height")
+setDT(master.edgelist.output.spent)
+
+# Only include positive _value_s for output created, since that's the value of the created output
+# Then, below do an "inner merge" to get the proper outputs on the spending side
+
+rm(master.edgelist)
+master.edgelist.output.spent <- merge(master.edgelist.output.created, master.edgelist.output.spent)
+rm(master.edgelist.output.created)
+
+
+
+block.times <- readRDS(paste0(data.dir, "block_times.rds"))
+colnames(block.times) <- c("output.created.block_height", "output.created.block_time")
+setDT(block.times)
+
+master.edgelist.output.spent <- merge(master.edgelist.output.spent, block.times, by = "output.created.block_height")
+
+colnames(block.times) <- c("output.spent.block_height", "output.spent.block_time")
+
+master.edgelist.output.spent <- merge(master.edgelist.output.spent, block.times, by = "output.spent.block_height")
+
+# TODO: Explore phenomenon of out-of-order block timestamps and decide what to do about them
+
+master.edgelist.output.spent[, output.spend.age := output.spent.block_time - output.created.block_time]
+
+# These reduce RAM usage if desired:
+# master.edgelist.output.spent[, output.created.block_time := NULL]
+# master.edgelist.output.spent[, output.created.block_height := NULL]
+# master.edgelist.output.spent[, output_index := NULL]
+
+
+output.spent.block_time.intermediate <- unique(master.edgelist.output.spent[, .(output.spent.block_time)])
+
+output.spent.block_time.intermediate[, output.spent.block_time.week :=
+    lubridate::isoweek(as.POSIXct(output.spent.block_time, origin = "1970-01-01", tz = "UTC"))]
+
+output.spent.block_time.intermediate[, output.spent.block_time.isoweekyear :=
+    lubridate::isoyear(as.POSIXct(output.spent.block_time, origin = "1970-01-01", tz = "UTC"))]
+
+output.spent.block_time.intermediate[,
+  output.spent.block_time.week := factor(paste0(output.spent.block_time.isoweekyear, "-", 
+    formatC(output.spent.block_time.week, width = 2, flag = "0")))]
+
+master.edgelist.output.spent <- merge(master.edgelist.output.spent, 
+  output.spent.block_time.intermediate[, .(output.spent.block_time, output.spent.block_time.week)], by = "output.spent.block_time")
+
+saveRDS(master.edgelist.output.spent, paste0(data.dir, "master_edgelist_output_spent.rds"))
+
+
+

General-Blockchain-Age-of-Spent-Outputs/extract-tx-graphs.R

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+# install.packages("rbch")
+# install.packages("data.table")
+# install.packages("future.apply")
+
+library(rbch)
+library(data.table)
+library(future.apply)
+
+is.dogecoin <- FALSE
+
+blockchain.conf.file <- ""
+# Input filepath for your {blockchain}.conf file
+
+data.dir <- ""
+# Input data directory here, with trailing "/"
+
+current.block.height <- NA_integer_
+# current.block.height <- rbch::getblockchaininfo(bch.config)@result$blocks
+
+n.threads <- min(c(6, parallelly::availableCores()))
+# Recommended no more than 6 threads since all threads query the single blockchain daemon process.
+
+dir.create(paste0(data.dir, "tx_graphs"))
+
+blockchain.config <- rbch::conrpc(blockchain.conf.file)
+rpcport <- readLines(blockchain.conf.file)
+rpcport <- rpcport[grepl("rpcport", rpcport) ]
+if (length(rpcport) > 0) {
+  blockchain.config@url <- paste0("http://127.0.0.1:", gsub("[^0-9]", "", rpcport))
+}
+
+cut.seq <- seq(20, current.block.height, by = 20)
+cut.seq <- c(-1, cut.seq, current.block.height)
+
+heights.to.process <- 0:current.block.height
+heights.to.process <- split(heights.to.process, 
+  cut(heights.to.process, cut.seq))
+
+future::plan(future::multiprocess(workers = n.threads))
+
+
+for (height.set in heights.to.process) {
+  
+  extracted.txs <- future.apply::future_lapply(height.set, function(iter.block.height) {
+    
+    if (iter.block.height %% 1000 == 0) {
+      cat(iter.block.height, base::date(), "\n")
+    }
+    
+    block.hash <- rbch::getblockhash(blockchain.config, iter.block.height)
+    if( ! is.dogecoin) {
+      block.data <- rbch::getblock(bch.config, blockhash = block.hash@result, verbosity = "l2")
+      # Argument verbose = 2 gives full transaction data
+    } else {
+      block.data <- jsonlite::fromJSON(paste0("http://localhost:22555/rest/block/", block.hash@result, ".json"), simplifyVector = FALSE)
+    }
+    #raw.txs.ls <- block.data@result$tx
+    raw.txs.ls <- block.data$tx
+    
+    coinbase.tx <- raw.txs.ls[[1]]
+    
+    value <- vector("numeric", length(coinbase.tx$vout) )
+    
+    for (j in seq_along(coinbase.tx$vout)) { 
+      value[j] <- coinbase.tx$vout[[j]]$value
+    }
+    
+    outgoing.coinbase <- data.table(txid = coinbase.tx$txid, 
+      position = seq_along(coinbase.tx$vout), value = value, block_height = iter.block.height, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+    
+    coinbase.return.value <- list(incoming = 
+        data.table(txid = character(0), origin.txid = character(0),
+          origin.position = numeric(0), block_height = integer(0), stringsAsFactors = FALSE),
+      outgoing = outgoing.coinbase)
+    
+    if ( length(raw.txs.ls) < 2) {
+      return(list(coinbase.return.value))
+    }
+    # No incoming txs for coinbase-only
+    
+    # Results of this lapply below are returned
+    
+    return.value <- lapply(2:length(raw.txs.ls), function(iter) {
+      # Start at 2 since the first tx is the coinbase tx
+      
+      latest.tx <- raw.txs.ls[[iter]]
+      
+      # addresses <- vector("character", length(latest.tx$vout) )
+      value <- vector("numeric", length(latest.tx$vout) )
+      
+      for (j in seq_along(latest.tx$vout)) { 
+        extracted.address <- latest.tx$vout[[j]]$scriptPubKey$addresses
+        if (length(extracted.address) > 1) {
+          extracted.address <- list(paste0(sort(unlist(extracted.address)), collapse = "|"))
+          # sort() so that the address order is always the same
+        }
+        
+        stopifnot(length(extracted.address[[1]]) <= 1)
+        if (length(extracted.address) == 0) {next}
+        
+        # addresses[j] <- extracted.address[[1]]
+        value[j] <- latest.tx$vout[[j]]$value
+      }
+      
+      outgoing <- data.table(txid = latest.tx$txid, 
+        # address = addresses, 
+        position = seq_along(latest.tx$vout), value = value, block_height = iter.block.height, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+      
+      origin.txid <- vector("character", length(latest.tx$vin) )
+      origin.position <- vector("numeric", length(latest.tx$vin) )
+      
+      for (j in seq_along(latest.tx$vin)) { 
+        extracted.address <- latest.tx$vin[[j]]$txid
+        stopifnot(length(extracted.address) <= 1)
+        stopifnot(length(extracted.address[[1]]) <= 1)
+        if (length(extracted.address) == 0) {next}
+        
+        origin.txid[j] <- latest.tx$vin[[j]]$txid
+        origin.position[j] <- latest.tx$vin[[j]]$vout + 1
+      }
+      
+      incoming <- data.table(txid = latest.tx$txid, origin.txid = origin.txid,
+        origin.position = origin.position, block_height = iter.block.height, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+      
+      list(incoming = incoming, outgoing = outgoing)
+      
+    })
+    
+    return.value[[length(return.value) + 1]] <- coinbase.return.value
+    # Note that this means that coinbase txs are now "last in the block"
+    
+    return.value
+    
+  })
+  
+  
+  print(object.size(extracted.txs), units = "Mb")
+  
+  extracted.txs <- unlist(extracted.txs, recursive = FALSE)
+  
+  incoming <- data.table::rbindlist(lapply(extracted.txs, function(x) {
+    x[[1]]
+  })
+  )
+  
+  outgoing <- data.table::rbindlist(lapply(extracted.txs, function(x) {
+    x[[2]]
+  })
+  )
+  
+  rm(extracted.txs)
+  
+  saveRDS(list(incoming = incoming, outgoing = outgoing), 
+    file = paste0(data.dir, "tx_graphs/tx_graph_height_", 
+      paste0(formatC(range(height.set), width = 7, flag = "0"), collapse = "_to_"), ".rds"), 
+    compress = FALSE)
+  
+  rm(incoming)
+  rm(outgoing)
+  
+}
+

General-Blockchain-Age-of-Spent-Outputs/get-block-times.R

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+library(data.table)
+library(rbch)
+library(future.apply)
+
+is.dogecoin <- FALSE
+
+blockchain.conf.file <- ""
+# Input filepath for your {blockchain}.conf file
+
+data.dir <- ""
+# Input data directory here, with trailing "/"
+
+current.block.height <- NA_integer_
+# current.block.height <- rbch::getblockchaininfo(bch.config)@result$blocks
+
+n.threads <- min(c(6, parallelly::availableCores()))
+# Recommended no more than 6 threads since all threads query the single blockchain daemon process.
+
+blockchain.config <- rbch::conrpc(blockchain.conf.file)
+
+
+getblock.doge <- function(con, blockhash, verbosity = TRUE) {
+  bh <- as.character(blockhash)
+  pl <- unname(list(blockhash = bh, verbosity = verbosity))
+  rpcpost(con, "getblock", pl)
+}
+
+
+future::plan(future::multiprocess(workers = n.threads))
+
+block.times <- future.apply::future_lapply(0:current.block.height, function(iter.block.height) {
+  
+  if (iter.block.height %% 1000 == 0) {
+    cat(iter.block.height, base::date(), "\n")
+  }
+  
+  block.hash <- rbch::getblockhash(blockchain.config, iter.block.height)
+  
+  if ( ! is.dogecoin) {
+    block.data <- rbch::getblock(blockchain.config, blockhash = block.hash@result, verbosity = "l1")
+  } else {
+    block.data <- getblock.doge(blockchain.config, blockhash = block.hash@result, verbosity = TRUE)
+  }
+  data.frame(block_height = iter.block.height, block_time = block.data@result$time)
+})
+
+block.times <- data.table::rbindlist(block.times)
+
+saveRDS(block.times, file = paste0(data.dir, "block_times.rds"))
+
+
+