What drives your curiosity?
Right now, mostly just understanding the community and motivations of Bitcoin users. Eventually, if most transactions end up being small, I'd like to get feedback on the idea of putting a hardcap on the amount of Bitcoins that can be outgoin from a single address within a certain timeframe, say 100 btc for one day. I believe that would help Bitcoin eventually comply with AML laws which might eventually cause trouble for the currency, with a minimal impact on the majority of users. Getting to know what people do with their Bitcoins is the first step though.
Nah, don't worry. New threads like this pop up all the time as the old ones get stale. Here are some older threads on it:
Many thanks, I'l take a look.
I know for a fact a large percentage (not me) of bitcoin users buy drugs or other illegal items on the deepweb.
I personally am just holding them for now. I expect a steady increase in value of the next year.
I'm not sure what that percentage is, and what is the typical transaction size for these users is. The following paper is a nice analysis of The Silk Road but did not include the info I am looking for.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139I'm not looking to shut down drug buyers in any way, just trying to understand what the typical transaction amount is and what's a typical pattern.
