19 Mar 2022 [research]

Rucknium shares 2014-2022 visualizations of Monero ring member age distribution

Rucknium1 has shared weekly and monthly visualizations2’3 of Monero ring member age distribution since 2014/04:

I created a visualization of the evolution of the distribution of ring member age over time.4

The researcher proceeds to explain that the kernel density estimate is a more sophisticated histogram5.

The X axis represents the natural logarithm of the number of seconds that had elapsed since the referenced output was confirmed in a block6.

Rucknium is working on OSPEAD7 research, which aims to fortify Monero against statistical attacks. Recently he has been looking to collect information on nonstandard Monero decoy selection algorithms8.

Join #monero-research-lab on IRC/Matrix9 and read the logs10 to view Rucknium’s investigation remarks and get involved in the discussion.

Consult my mid-2021 Monero transaction volume anomaly report11 if you want to go deeper.

  1. https://github.com/Rucknium ↩

  2. https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-decoy-selection-empirical-evolution/images/Kernel-density-estimate-Monero-ring-member-age-monthly.gif ↩

  3. https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-decoy-selection-empirical-evolution/images/Kernel-density-estimate-Monero-ring-member-age-weekly.gif ↩

  4. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20220319#c78963 ↩

  5. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20220319#c79002 ↩

  6. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20220319#c79001 ↩

  7. /rucknium-ospead-ccs-proposal/ ↩

  8. https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/99 ↩

  9. irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab (IRC), https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social (Matrix) ↩

  10. https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20220319#c78971 ↩

  11. /researchers-publish-forensic-statistical-analysis-xmr-transaction-volume-anomaly/ ↩