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Specifically I would like to analyze the structure, topology,.. of the blockchain i.e., holographic principle, evidence for CMB noise similarity. Sounds silly, even more so by the name 'genesis'. Didn't LA Police confirm he was a private contractor for DoD (~DARPA?)?
I do not have information about the LA Police nor the DoD. You can see live data at https://blockchain.info/
You could get some interesting plots out of it, say the number of transactions per week day, the volume etc. They have all kinds of charts here https://blockchain.info/stats, so you can see the data over time.
If you want to get in the tech have a lookat https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/ (java) or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bitcoinlib/0.2 (python). Also, read the original paper - its more clear than reading code
On YouTube are some videos as well, online cryptocurrency course If im not mistaking
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Anyone else have this entertaining idea, tried it - have suggestions? Currently downloading entire blockchain, yaye for big data visualization!
Try to make a fork or something small