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Table 2 Data used and basic real-world network characteristics. The Blockchain network is a network of transactions between cryptocurrency accounts in Ethereum, the Dark Web network is a network of users sharing child pornography on the dark web, and the Conspiracy network is a network of political conspirators in Brazil. N is the number of nodes, V is the number of links, \(\langle k\rangle \) is the average degree, c is the clustering coefficient, \(\langle \ell \rangle \) is the average shortest path length (which for the Blockchain network could only be estimated due to the network size), and density is the overall density of links defined by the number of links in the network divided by the number of all possible links. Median is listed rather than mean due to fat-tail

From: Percolation framework reveals limits of privacy in conspiracy, dark web, and blockchain networks

Metric/Network

Blockchain

Dark Web

Conspiracy

N

2,291,941

10,407

404

V

5,262,468

820,272

3350

k

2.8

150

9.7

c

0.21

0.83

0.85

l

4

2.15

2.98

Density

10−6

0.0076

0.022