This repository contains the official procedure for analyzing the expanded ransomware dataset produced by the extraction procedure available in this repository.
Possibility 1: Run extraction procedure (to have an updated version of the blockchain)
Possibility 2a: Download the dataset expanded dataset and save it into ./dataset/
The dataset is based on an expansion made on October 28th, 2017 with 489,181 blocks, 260,167,622 transactions and 312,506,384 addresses in the Blockchain.
Possibility 2b: Execute the provided download and extraction script
./fetch_dataset_gcloud.sh
Open empirical_analysis.Rmd in R Studio and run it.