Analysis of Input/Output Count and Transaction Size in Bitcoin

Accumulation of blockchain data has led to a number of various data studies. significant body of studies pertaining to block generation performance, financial assets, interactions between users, etc. At the same time, surprisingly little attention has been dedicated to analyzing system characteristics of transactional workloads. We argue that such analysis is imperative for assessing performance and security of new consensus and storage protocols. However, input and output count of transactions, as well as transaction size have only been partially analyzed. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of these metrics based on data collected over three months and report on the findings,