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license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
tags:
  - anti-money-laundering
  - bitcoin
  - graph-learning
  - financial-crime
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# Elliptic Data Set

The Elliptic Data Set is a Bitcoin transaction graph for illicit transaction detection and anti-money laundering research.

- **Nodes:** Bitcoin transactions
- **Edges:** Directed money flows between transactions
- **Labels:** Licit, illicit, or unknown
- **Time:** 49 temporal steps

## Source

Originally released by **Elliptic**.

Dataset:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ellipticco/elliptic-data-set

Reference:

> Weber, M. et al. (2019).  
> **Anti-Money Laundering in Bitcoin: Experimenting with Graph Convolutional Networks for Financial Forensics.**

## License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0