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Refining Heuristic-Based Bitcoin Address Clustering with Graph Neural Networks

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature makes it challenging to analyze user-level activity, since a single user may control multiple identifiers (addresses). Existing heuristic-based methods attempt to identify addresses belonging to the same user, but they often produce flat cluster assignments with limited modularity and are prone to errors such as merging different users together. In this work, we propose a method for refining heuristic-obtained clusters by grounding our clustering on contrastive embeddings yielded by graph neural networks. Our contributions are threefold: (i) we release a publicly

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