Research Article

Understanding Block and Transaction Logs of Permissionless Blockchain Networks

Table 9

Identified reasons of stale transactions.

CategoryTransaction count

(a) Bitcoin
Conflict39,408(93.78%)
Stale transaction input2,307(5.49%)
Conflict and stale transaction input308(0.73%)
Sum42,023(100.00%)
(b) Ethereum
Conflict1,208,588(89.24%)
Nonce (skipped)133,161(9.83%)
Nonce (used)251(0.02%)
Insufficient fund9,847(7.27%)
Sum1,351,847(99.82%)
(c) EOS
Fork12,106(1.80%)
Others660,893(98.20%)
Sum672,999(100.00%)