Data Mining

Student Projects

• A Watchtower for Discovering the Nostr Ecosystem | Student Projects

  Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays (Nostr) is a decentralized communication system built on open protocols, enabling censorship-resistant and permissionless information exchange. Its development is driven by Nostr Improvement Proposals (NIPs), which define modular features that developers implement selectively, leading to an intentionally highly flexible and diverse ecosystem. This project aims to analyze Nostr from both a data-driven and software-engineering perspective, examining its usage patterns, architectural variations, and the broader implications of its decentralized design and development paradigm.

• Understanding the Bitcoin Ecosystem: A Graph-Based Exploration of BIPs | Student Projects

  Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) are essential to the evolution of the Bitcoin protocol, characterized by both their individual attributes (e.g., status, categories) and interrelationships (e.g., dependencies, succession). This project aims to mine and structure BIP data, archiving it in a browsable format that captures both these characteristics and connections. Through graph-based visualizations and analysis, we seek to enable a more interactive exploration of the BIP landscape, enhancing both understanding and insight into the proposals and their roles within the ecosystem.