Identifying the Challenges of the Blockchain Community from StackExchange Topics and Trends

Alahi, Irfan; Islam, Mubassher; Iqbal, Anindya; Bosu, Amiangshu

doi:10.1109/compsac.2019.00026

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“…Additionally, the authors discovered two strong connections between the blockchain and cryptocurrencies and between the blockchain and various applications. The software developers' posts from two blockchain-related Stack Exchange sites were investigated with an LDA to identify relevant topics [33] in an attempt to find the challenges that software developers encounter. The results showed that the posts regarding the blockchain increased in occurrence, while those regarding mining cryptocurrencies decreased.…”

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The Impact of Academic Publications over the Last Decade on Historical Bitcoin Prices Using Generative Models

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2024

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Since 2012, researchers have explored various factors influencing Bitcoin prices. Up until the end of July 2023, more than 9100 research papers on cryptocurrencies were published and indexed in the Web of Science Clarivate platform. The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of publications on Bitcoin prices. This study aims to uncover significant themes within these research articles, focusing on cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin specifically. The research employs latent Dirichlet allocation to identify key topics from the unstructured abstracts. To determine the optimal number of topics, perplexity and topic coherence metrics are calculated. Additionally, the abstracts are processed using BERT-transformers and Word2Vec and their potential to predict Bitcoin prices is assessed. Based on the results, while the research helps in understanding cryptocurrencies, the potential of academic publications to influence Bitcoin prices is not significant, demonstrating a weak connection. In other words, the movements of Bitcoin prices are not influenced by the scientific writing in this specific field. The primary topics emerging from the analysis are the blockchain, market dynamics, transactions, pricing trends, network security, and the mining process. These findings suggest that future research should pay closer attention to issues like the energy demands and environmental impacts of mining, anti-money laundering measures, and behavioral aspects related to cryptocurrencies.

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The Impact of Academic Publications over the Last Decade on Historical Bitcoin Prices Using Generative Models

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2024

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How are texts analyzed in blockchain research? A systematic literature review

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2024

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This paper provides a systematic literature review of text analysis methodologies used in blockchain-related research to comprehend and synthesize existing studies across disciplines and define future research directions. We summarize the research scope, text data, and methodologies of 124 papers and identify the two most common combinations of these dimensions: (1) papers that focus on specific cryptocurrencies tend to apply sentiment analysis to instant user-generated content or news articles to discover the correlations between public opinion and market behavior, and (2) studies that examine the broad concept of blockchain with text data from documents published by companies tend to apply topic modeling techniques to explore classifications and trends in blockchain development. We discover five major research topics in the academic literature: relationship discovery, cryptocurrency performance prediction, classification and trend, crime and regulation, and perception of blockchain. Based on these findings, we highlight three potential research directions for researchers to select topics and implement suitable methodologies for text analysis.

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Identifying the Challenges of the Blockchain Community from StackExchange Topics and Trends

Cited by 2 publications

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The Impact of Academic Publications over the Last Decade on Historical Bitcoin Prices Using Generative Models

The Impact of Academic Publications over the Last Decade on Historical Bitcoin Prices Using Generative Models

How are texts analyzed in blockchain research? A systematic literature review

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