> To this purpose, we count the number of transactions from July 30, 2015 (the date of the origin block in Ethereum) to March 6, 2017 (the date when we extracte

> To this purpose, we count the number of transactions from July 30, 2015 (the date of the origin block in Ethereum) to March 6, 2017 (the date when we extracted the transactions), obtaining a total of 16082269 transactions. Since we counted 17777 transactions related to Ponzi schemes, we have that Ponzi schemes only constitute ∼ 0.05% of the transactions in the Ethereum blockchain.