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Methodology Whitepaper v1.0

v1.0 CC-BY-4.0 English only Released 2026-04-29 · 2,251 words · ~12 min read

This paper documents the three methodological pillars of Swiss Whale Intelligence: the Truth-Source Pipeline (byte-perfect scantxoutset-derived balances), Cluster-Forensik via the Meiklejohn et al. (2013) common-input heuristic, and Mining-Pool Attribution via coinbase-tag matching (99.6% coverage for 2026 blocks).

All metrics are reproducible: every per-row data point can be independently verified against any synced Bitcoin Core node. SQL queries to reproduce every figure are included in Appendix A.

Contents

• 1. Introduction — stack overview & verifiability principle
• 2. Truth-Source Pipeline — daily scantxoutset, 1,164 addresses
• 3. Cluster-Forensik — Meiklejohn 2013 + co-occurrence fallback (6.2M sender clusters)
• 4. Mining-Pool Attribution — Foundry/AntPool/ViaBTC/F2Pool, 99.6% YTD 2026
• 5. Cross-method validation
• 6. Reproducibility — academic-tier API access (free for verified .edu)
• 7. Limitations & future work
• 8. References
• Appendix A — runnable queries

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