The rise in adoption of cryptoassets has brought many new and inexperienced investors in the cryptocurrency space. These investors can be disproportionally influenced by information they receive online, and particularly from social media. This paper presents a dataset of crypto-related bounty events and the users that participate in them. These events coordinate social media campaigns to create artificial "hype" around a crypto project in order to influence the price of its token. The dataset consists of information about 15.8K cross-media bounty events, 185K participants, 10M forum comments and 82M social media URLs collected from the Bounties(Altcoins) subforum of the BitcoinTalk online forum from May 2014 to December 2022. We describe the data collection and the data processing methods employed and we present a basic characterization of the dataset. Furthermore, we discuss potential research opportunities afforded by the dataset across many disciplines and we highlight potential novel insights into how the cryptocurrency industry operates and how it interacts with its audience.
翻译:加密货币资产采纳率的上升,使大量缺乏经验的新投资者涌入加密货币领域。这些投资者可能过度受到在线信息(尤其是社交媒体信息)的影响。本文提出了一个与加密相关的赏金事件及参与这些事件的用户数据集。这些事件通过协调社交媒体活动,围绕某个加密项目制造人为"热度",以影响其代币价格。该数据集包含从2014年5月至2022年12月期间,在BitcoinTalk在线论坛的Bounties(Altcoins)子论坛收集的15.8K个跨媒体赏金事件、185K名参与者、10M条论坛评论及82M条社交媒体URL信息。我们描述了数据采集与处理方法,并对数据集进行了基本特征分析。此外,我们探讨了该数据集在多学科领域潜在的研究机会,并重点揭示了其对理解加密货币行业运作机制及与受众互动方式的新颖见解。