Leverage the Power of Apache Flink to analyze the Bitcoin Blockchain

2017-05-24 --- Jörn Franke

The hadoopcryptoledger library has been enhanced with a datasource for Apache Flink. This means you can use the Big Data processing framework Apache Flink to analyze the Bitcoin Blockchain.

It also includes an example that counts the total number of transactions in the Bitcoin blockchain. Of course given the power of Apache Flink you can think about more complex analysis applications, such as:

In the future, we want to work on the following things :