Assessing Holistic Impacts of Major Events on the Bitcoin Blockchain Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02416v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 17:46:23 GMT
• Title: Assessing Holistic Impacts of Major Events on the Bitcoin Blockchain Network
• Authors: Anthony Luo and Dianxiang Xu
• Abstract summary: We present an efficient framework for holistic analysis of cryptocurrency fluctuations by introducing the Impact-Score metric. We have applied our framework to 16 major worldwide events and the Bitcoin blockchain network from 2016-2018. The results show that a majority of the events are correlated with substantial network changes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As the pioneer of blockchain technology, Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency to date. Given its dramatic price spikes (and crashes) along with the never-ending news from SEC regulations to security breaches, there seems to be a lack of understanding about the dynamics of cryptocurrencies. These dynamics are believed to be affected by various political, security, financial, and regulatory events. In this paper, we present an efficient framework for holistic analysis of cryptocurrency fluctuations by introducing the Impact-Score metric to distinguish event-induced changes from normal variations. We have applied our framework to 16 major worldwide events and the Bitcoin blockchain network (defined as Bitcoin transaction and users, blockchain data, and memory pool data) from 2016-2018. The results show that a majority of the events are correlated with substantial network changes. We observed roughly generalizable correlations between event types (e.g. financial events) and sub-structures of the Bitcoin blockchain network. Subgroups of these events have strongly consistent temporal impacts on specific facets (e.g. activity or fees) of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Furthermore, we demonstrate the robustness of our process by correlating a majority of spikes in network/subnetwork change with major events.

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