A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns

Karolis Zilius; Tasos Spiliotopoulos; Aad van Moorsel

doi:10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219

A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns

Karolis Zilius, Tasos Spiliotopoulos^*, Aad van Moorsel

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Editors	Yu-Ru Lin, Meeyoung Cha, Daniele Quercia
Publisher	AAAI Press
Pages	1112-1121
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781577358794
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2023
Event	Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023) - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 5 Jun 2023 → 8 Jun 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
Publisher	AAAI Press
Volume	17
ISSN (Print)	2162-3449
ISSN (Electronic)	2334-0770

Conference

Conference	Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023)
Abbreviated title	ICWSM 2023
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	5/06/23 → 8/06/23

Keywords

Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media
interpersonal communication mediated by social media, Trust
reputation
recommendation systems, Human computer interaction
social media tools
navigation and visualization

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A Dataset of Coordinated Cryptocurrency-Related Social Media Campaigns
Zilius, K. (Creator), Spiliotopoulos, T. (Creator) & van Moorsel, A. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 15 Jan 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7539179
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Zilius, K., Spiliotopoulos, T., & Moorsel, A. V. (2023). A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. In Y-R. Lin, M. Cha, & D. Quercia (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (pp. 1112-1121). (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.; Vol. 17). AAAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219

Zilius, Karolis ; Spiliotopoulos, Tasos ; Moorsel, Aad van. / A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. editor / Yu-Ru Lin ; Meeyoung Cha ; Daniele Quercia. AAAI Press, 2023. pp. 1112-1121 (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.).

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Zilius, K, Spiliotopoulos, T & Moorsel, AV 2023, A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. in Y-R Lin, M Cha & D Quercia (eds), Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media., vol. 17, AAAI Press, pp. 1112-1121, Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023), Limassol, Cyprus, 5/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219

A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. / Zilius, Karolis; Spiliotopoulos, Tasos ; Moorsel, Aad van.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. ed. / Yu-Ru Lin; Meeyoung Cha; Daniele Quercia. AAAI Press, 2023. p. 1112-1121 (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.; Vol. 17).

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Zilius K, Spiliotopoulos T , Moorsel AV. A dataset of coordinated cryptocurrency-related social media campaigns. In Lin Y-R, Cha M, Quercia D, editors, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AAAI Press. 2023. p. 1112-1121. (Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.). doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22219

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