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:加密资产的普及使得许多新手和经验不足的投资者涌入加密货币领域。这些投资者受到他们在网上获得的信息(尤其是社交媒体上)的不成比例的影响。本文介绍了一个有关加密货币赏金活动及参与者的数据集。这些活动通过协调社交媒体宣传活动,制造人工“炒作”以影响加密项目代币价格。该数据集由从2014年5月至2022年12月的BitcoinTalk在线论坛的Bounties(Altcoins)子论坛中收集的有关15.8K条跨媒体赏金活动、185K名参与者、10M条论坛评论和82M个社交媒体URL的信息组成。我们介绍了数据集的收集和处理方法,并对数据集进行了基本的特征描述。此外,我们讨论了该数据集在许多领域中提供的潜在研究机会,并强调了可能的新见解,包括加密货币行业的运作方式和它与受众的互动。