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:加密资产普及率的提升吸引了大量缺乏经验的新投资者进入加密货币领域。这些投资者极易受到线上信息,尤其是社交媒体信息的非对称影响。本文提出了一套与加密领域赏金活动及其参与用户相关的数据集。此类活动通过协调社交媒体营销制造关于加密项目的人为"热潮",从而影响代币价格。该数据集包含2014年5月至2022年12月期间从BitcoinTalk论坛的Bounties(Altcoins)子版块收集的15.8万条跨媒体赏金活动、18.5万名参与者、1000万条论坛评论及8200万条社交媒体网址信息。我们详述了数据采集与处理方法,并展示了数据集的基本特征。此外,我们探讨了该数据集在多学科中潜在的研究机遇,强调了关于加密货币行业运作机制及其与用户交互模式的新颖见解。