Context

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a collection of binary data which is designed to work as a medium of exchange. Individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger, which is a computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, to control the creation of additional coins, and to verify the transfer of coin ownership. Cryptocurrencies are generally fiat currencies, as they are not backed by or convertible into a commodity. Some crypto schemes use validators to maintain the cryptocurrency. In a proof-of-stake model, owners put up their tokens as collateral. In return, they get authority over the token in proportion to the amount they stake. Generally, these token stakes get additional ownership in the token overtime via network fees, newly minted tokens, or other such reward mechanisms.

Cryptocurrency does not exist in physical form (like paper money) and is typically not issued by a central authority. Cryptocurrencies typically use decentralized control as opposed to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). When a cryptocurrency is minted or created prior to issuance or issued by a single issuer, it is generally considered centralized. When implemented with decentralized control, each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database

A cryptocurrency is a tradable digital asset or digital form of money, built on blockchain technology that only exists online. Cryptocurrencies use encryption to authenticate and protect transactions, hence their name. There are currently over a thousand different cryptocurrencies in the world, and many see them as the key to a fairer future economy.

Bitcoin, first released as open-source software in 2009, is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Since the release of bitcoin, many other cryptocurrencies have been created.

Content

This Dataset is a collection of records of 3000+ Different Cryptocurrencies. * Top 395+ from 2021 * Top 3000+ from 2023

Structure of the Dataset

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Acknowledgements

This Data is collected from: https://finance.yahoo.com/. If you want to learn more, you can visit the Website.

Cover Photo by Worldspectrum: https://www.pexels.com/photo/ripple-etehereum-and-bitcoin-and-micro-sdhc-card-844124/

How many cryptocurrencies are there? In short, there were over ***** as of June 2025, although there were many more digital coins in the early months of 2022. Note, however, that a large portion of cryptocurrencies might not be that significant. There are other estimates of roughly ****** cryptocurrencies existing, but most of these are either inactive or discontinued. Due to how open the creation process of a cryptocurrency is, it is relatively easy to make one. Indeed, the top 20 cryptocurrencies make up nearly ** percent of the total market. Why are there thousands of cryptocurrencies? Any private individual or company that knows how to write a program on a blockchain can technically create a cryptocurrency. That blockchain can be an existing one. Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain are popular blockchain platforms for such ends, including smart contracts within Decentralized Finance (DeFi). The ease of crypto creation allows some individuals to find solutions to real-world payment problems while others hope to make a quick profit. This explains why some crypto lack utility. Meme coins such as Dogecoin - named after a Japanese dog species - are an infamous example, with Dogecoin's creator coming out and stating the coin started as a joke. The many types of cryptocurrency Meme coins are but one group of cryptocurrencies. Other types include altcoins, utility tokens, governance tokens, and stablecoins. Altcoins are often measured against Bitcoin, as this refers to all crypto that followed Bitcoin - the first digital currency ever created. Utility tokens and governance tokens are somewhat connected to NFTs and the metaverse. A specific example is the MANA cryptocurrency, which allows real estate purchases in the Decentraland metaverse. Stablecoins refer to the likes of Tether, which are pegged to a real-world asset like the U.S. dollar. Such coins are meant to be less volatile than regular cryptocurrency.

This dataset contains a comprehensive collection of historical price records for the top 1000 cryptocurrencies. The data in this dataset is updated daily, providing a reliable and up-to-date source of information for cryptocurrency traders, researchers, and enthusiasts.

Each file in the dataset includes the following columns: date, open price, high price, low price, closing price, adjusted closing price, and trading volume. These columns provide a detailed picture of the daily price movements and trading activity of each cryptocurrency in the dataset.

The "date" column indicates the day on which the price data was recorded, while the "open" column provides the opening price of the cryptocurrency for that day. The "high" and "low" columns indicate the highest and lowest prices of the cryptocurrency on that day, respectively. The "close" column represents the closing price of the cryptocurrency on that day, while the "adjusted close" column takes into account any dividends or other corporate actions that may have affected the price. Finally, the "volume" column shows the trading volume of the cryptocurrency on that day.

With this dataset, users can analyze and visualize the performance of individual cryptocurrencies, compare them to one another, and track trends over time. The data is ideal for use in machine learning models, predictive analytics, and other data-driven applications.

Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that allows more bytes to be included in each block relative to it’s common ancestor Bitcoin. This dataset contains the blockchain data in their entirety, pre-processed to be human-friendly and to support common use cases such as auditing, investigating, and researching the economic and financial properties of the system. This dataset is part of a larger effort to make cryptocurrency data available in BigQuery through the Google Cloud Public Datasets program . The program is hosting several cryptocurrency datasets, with plans to both expand offerings to include additional cryptocurrencies and reduce the latency of updates. You can find these datasets by searching "cryptocurrency" in GCP Marketplace. For analytics interoperability, we designed a unified schema that allows all Bitcoin-like datasets to share queries. Interested in learning more about how the data from these blockchains were brought into BigQuery? Looking for more ways to analyze the data? Check out the Google Cloud Big Data blog post and try the sample queries below to get started. This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery .

Analysis of ‘Crypto-data-part1’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/tusharsarkar/cryptodatapart1 on 28 January 2022.

--- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

Context

Things like Block chain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple etc are constantly coming in the news articles I read. So I wanted to understand more about it and this post helped me get started. Once the basics are done, the data scientist inside me started raising questions like:

How many cryptocurrencies are there and what are their prices and valuations? Why is there a sudden surge in the interest in recent days? So what next? Now that we have the price data, I wanted to dig a little more about the factors affecting the price of coins. I started of with Bitcoin and there are quite a few parameters which affect the price of Bitcoin. Thanks to Blockchain Info, I was able to get quite a few parameters on once in two day basis.

This will help understand the other factors related to Bitcoin price and also help one make future predictions in a better way than just using the historical price.

Content

The dataset has one csv file for each currency. Price history is available on a daily basis from April 28, 2013. This dataset has the historical price information of some of the top crypto currencies by market capitalization.

Date : date of observation Open : Opening price on the given day High : Highest price on the given day Low : Lowest price on the given day Close : Closing price on the given day Volume : Volume of transactions on the given day

--- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

Investment cannot be separated from the level of return and risk inherent in assets. Today, investment instruments are not only stocks, currencies, bonds, deposits, savings and others. The beginning of Bitcoin’s emergence as a pioneer of Cryptocurrency was in 2009. Crypto assets are emerging rapidly and are accompanied by an increase in the number of transactions each period. The growth in the market capitalization value of crypto assets has also grown significantly. During COVID-19, many investments, such as stocks, experienced a decline due to market uncertainty. The results of this study prove that with the existence of COVID-19, the crypto market is not affected. Crypto is an attraction characterized by a high degree of fluctuation, and there is no limit to transactions in the open market 24 hours to trade. The Cryptocurrency market is currently a market that can provide short-term benefits to risk-taking investors, while the market in other investment instruments is declining. 78% of the value capitalization of the top 200 cryptocurrencies is represented by the top 9 cryptos used as samples in this study. So that if there is a decrease in these 9 cryptos, it will also have an impact on the overall capitalization value of crypto in the market. The future development of Cryptocurrencies will no longer be digital assets traded with many speculators who can control prices, it can even be digital money that can be used worldwide without any transaction fees and is controlled on a blockchain system. (2023-01-12)

Context

Things like Block chain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple etc are constantly coming in the news articles I read. So I wanted to understand more about it and this post helped me get started. Once the basics are done, the data scientist inside me started raising questions like:

1. How many cryptocurrencies are there and what are their prices and valuations?
2. Why is there a sudden surge in the interest in recent days?

So what next? Now that we have the price data, I wanted to dig a little more about the factors affecting the price of coins. I started of with Bitcoin and there are quite a few parameters which affect the price of Bitcoin. Thanks to Blockchain Info, I was able to get quite a few parameters on once in two day basis.

This will help understand the other factors related to Bitcoin price and also help one make future predictions in a better way than just using the historical price.

Content

The dataset has one csv file for each currency. Price history is available on a daily basis from April 28, 2013. This dataset has the historical price information of some of the top crypto currencies by market capitalization.

• Date : date of observation
• Open : Opening price on the given day
• High : Highest price on the given day
• Low : Lowest price on the given day
• Close : Closing price on the given day
• Volume : Volume of transactions on the given day
• Market Cap : Market capitalization in USD

Acknowledgements

This data is taken from coinmarketcap and it is free to use the data.

Cover Image : Photo by Thomas Malama on Unsplash

Inspiration

Some of the questions which could be inferred from this dataset are:

1. How did the historical prices / market capitalizations of various currencies change over time?
2. Predicting the future price of the currencies
3. Which currencies are more volatile and which ones are more stable?
4. How does the price fluctuations of currencies correlate with each other?
5. Seasonal trend in the price fluctuations

Cryptocurrency historical datasets from January 2012 (if available) to October 2021 were obtained and integrated from various sources and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including Yahoo Finance, Cryptodownload, CoinMarketCap, various Kaggle datasets, and multiple APIs. While these datasets used various formats of time (e.g., minutes, hours, days), in order to integrate the datasets days format was used for in this research study. The integrated cryptocurrency historical datasets for 80 cryptocurrencies including but not limited to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Cardano (ADA), Tether (USDT), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), USD Coin (USDC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Tron (TRX), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS), Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), Uniswap (UNI), Terra (LUNA), SHIBA INU (SHIB), and 60 more cryptocurrencies were uploaded in this online Mendeley data repository. Although the primary attribute of including the mentioned cryptocurrencies was the Market Capitalization, a subject matter expert i.e., a professional trader has also guided the initial selection of the cryptocurrencies by analyzing various indicators such as Relative Strength Index (RSI), Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD), MYC Signals, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Retracement, Stochastic Oscillator and Ichimoku Cloud. The primary features of this dataset that were used as the decision-making criteria of the CLUS-MCDA II approach are Timestamps, Open, High, Low, Closed, Volume (Currency), % Change (7 days and 24 hours), Market Cap and Weighted Price values. The available excel and CSV files in this data set are just part of the integrated data and other databases, datasets and API References that was used in this study are as follows: [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/ [2] https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/ [3] https://cryptodatadownload.com/ [4] https://kaggle.com/philmohun/cryptocurrency-financial-data [5] https://kaggle.com/deepshah16/meme-cryptocurrency-historical-data [6] https://kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/cryptocurrencypricehistory [7] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/price?fsym=BTC&tsyms=USD [8] https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/ [9] https://p.nomics.com/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-api [10] https://www.coinapi.io/ [11] https://www.coingecko.com/en/api [12] https://cryptowat.ch/ [13] https://www.alphavantage.co/

This dataset is part of the CLUS-MCDA (Cluster analysis for improving Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) and CLUS-MCDAII Project: https://aimaghsoodi.github.io/CLUSMCDA-R-Package/ https://github.com/Aimaghsoodi/CLUS-MCDA-II https://github.com/azadkavian/CLUS-MCDA

Consumers from countries in Africa, Asia, and South America were most likely to be an owner of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in 2025. This conclusion can be reached after combining ** different surveys from the Statista's Consumer Insights over the course of that year. Nearly one out of three respondents to Statista's survey in Nigeria, for instance, mentioned they either owned or use a digital coin, rather than *** out of 100 respondents in the United States. This is a significant change from a list that looks at the Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume in ** countries: There, the United States and Russia were said to have traded the highest amounts of this particular virtual coin. Nevertheless, African and Latin American countries are noticeable entries in that list too. Daily use, or an investment tool? The survey asked whether consumers either owned or used cryptocurrencies but does not specify their exact use or purpose. Some countries, however, are more likely to use digital currencies on a day-to-day basis. Nigeria increasingly uses mobile money operations to either pay in stores or to send money to family and friends. Polish consumers could buy several types of products with a cryptocurrency in 2019. Opposed to this is the country of Vietnam: Here, the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a payment method is forbidden. Owning some form of cryptocurrency in Vietnam as an investment is allowed, however. Which countries are more likely to invest in cryptocurrencies? Professional investors looking for a cryptocurrency-themed ETF were more often found in Europe than in the United or China, according to a survey in early 2020. Most of the largest crypto hedge fund managers with a location in Europe in 2020, were either from the United Kingdom or Switzerland - the country with the highest cryptocurrency adoption rate in Europe according to Statista's Global Consumer Survey. Whether this had changed by 2025 was not yet clear.

The cryptocurrency market surpassed the barrier of $100 billion market capitalization in June 2017, after months of steady growth. Despite its increasing relevance in the financial world, a comprehensive analysis of the whole system is still lacking, as most studies have focused exclusively on the behaviour of one (Bitcoin) or few cryptocurrencies. Here, we consider the history of the entire market and analyse the behaviour of 1469 cryptocurrencies introduced between April 2013 and May 2017. We reveal that, while new cryptocurrencies appear and disappear continuously and their market capitalization is increasing (super-)exponentially, several statistical properties of the market have been stable for years. These include the number of active cryptocurrencies, market share distribution and the turnover of cryptocurrencies. Adopting an ecological perspective, we show that the so-called neutral model of evolution is able to reproduce a number of key empirical observations, despite its simplicity and the assumption of no selective advantage of one cryptocurrency over another. Our results shed light on the properties of the cryptocurrency market and establish a first formal link between ecological modelling and the study of this growing system. We anticipate they will spark further research in this direction.

# Crypto Price Monitoring Repository

This repository contains two CSV data files that were created to support the research titled "Price Arbitrage for DeFi Derivatives." This research is to be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, taking place on 5th May 2023 in Dubai, UAE. The data files include monitoring prices for various crypto assets from several sources. The data files are structured with five columns, providing information about the symbol, unified symbol, time, price, and source of the price.

## Data Files

There are two CSV data files in this repository (one for each date):

1. `Pricemon_results_2023_01_13.csv`
2. `Pricemon_results_2023_01_14.csv`

## Data Format

Both data files have the same format and structure, with the following five columns:

1. `symbol`: The trading symbol for the crypto asset (e.g., BTC, ETH).
2. `unified_symbol`: A standardized symbol used across different platforms.
3. `time`: Timestamp for when the price data was recorded (in UTC format).
4. `price`: The price of the crypto asset at the given time (in USD).
5. `source`: The name of the price source for the data.

## Price Sources

The `source` column in the data files refers to the provider of the price data for each record. The sources include:

- `chainlink`: Chainlink Price Oracle
- `mycellium`: Built-in oracle of the Mycellium platform
- `bitfinex`: Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange
- `ftx`: FTX cryptocurrency exchange
- `binance`: Binance cryptocurrency exchange

## Usage

You can use these data files for various purposes, such as analyzing price discrepancies across different sources, identifying trends, or developing trading algorithms. To use the data, simply import the CSV files into your preferred data processing or analysis tool.

### Example

Here's an example of how you can read and display the data using Python and the pandas library:

import pandas as pd

# Read the data from CSV file
data = pd.read_csv('Pricemon_results_2023_01_13.csv')

# Display the first 5 rows of the data
print(data.head())`

## Acknowledgements

These datasets were recorded and supported by Datamint company (value-added on-chain data provider) and its team.

## Contributing

If you have any suggestions or find any issues with the data, please feel free to contact authors.

This Dataset is described in Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. IEEE Access (2020), a study that aims to map and assess the extent of cryptocurrency manipulations within and across the online ecosystems of Twitter, Telegram, and Discord. Starting from tweets mentioning cryptocurrencies, we leveraged and followed invite URLs from platform to platform, building the invite-link network, in order to study the invite link diffusion process.

Please, refer to the paper below for more details.

Nizzoli, L., Tardelli, S., Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Tesconi, M. & Ferrara, E. (2020). Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation. IEEE Access (2020).

This dataset is composed of:

~16M tweet ids shared between March and May 2019, mentioning at least one of the 3,822 cryptocurrencies (cashtags) provided by the CryptoCompare public API;

~13k nodes of the invite-link network, i.e., the information about the Telegram/Discord channels and Twitter users involved in the cryptocurrency discussion (e.g., id, name, audience, invite URL);

~62k edges of the invite-link network, i.e., the information about the flow of invites (e.g., source id, target id, weight).

With such information, one can easily retrieve the content of channels and messages through Twitter, Telegram, and Discord public APIs.

Please, refer to the README file for more details about the fields.

Bitcoin is a crypto currency leveraging blockchain technology to store transactions in a distributed ledger. A blockchain is an ever-growing tree of blocks. Each block contains a number of transactions. To learn more, read the Bitcoin Wiki . This dataset is part of a larger effort to make cryptocurrency data available in BigQuery through the Google Cloud Public Datasets program. The program is hosting several cryptocurrency datasets, with plans to both expand offerings to include additional cryptocurrencies and reduce the latency of updates. You can find these datasets by searching "cryptocurrency" in GCP Marketplace. For analytics interoperability, we designed a unified schema that allows all Bitcoin-like datasets to share queries. To further interoperate with Ethereum and ERC-20 token transactions, we also created some views that abstract the blockchain ledger to be presented as a double-entry accounting ledger. Interested in learning more about how the data from these blockchains were brought into BigQuery? Looking for more ways to analyze the data? Check out our blog post on the Google Cloud Big Data Blog and try the sample query below to get started. This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery .

Context

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Like its predecessor, Bitcoin, the Ethereum blockchain can be described as an immutable distributed ledger. However, creator Vitalik Buterin also extended the set of capabilities by including a virtual machine that can execute arbitrary code stored on the blockchain as smart contracts.

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are essentially OLTP databases, and provide little in the way of OLAP (analytics) functionality. However the Ethereum dataset is notably distinct from the Bitcoin dataset:

• The Ethereum blockchain has as its primary unit of value Ether, while the Bitcoin blockchain has Bitcoin. However, the majority of value transfer on the Ethereum blockchain is composed of so-called tokens. Tokens are created and managed by smart contracts.

• Ether value transfers are precise and direct, resembling accounting ledger debits and credits. This is in contrast to the Bitcoin value transfer mechanism, for which it can be difficult to determine the balance of a given wallet address.

• Addresses can be not only wallets that hold balances, but can also contain smart contract bytecode that allows the programmatic creation of agreements and automatic triggering of their execution. An aggregate of coordinated smart contracts could be used to build a decentralized autonomous organization.

Content

The Ethereum blockchain data are now available for exploration with BigQuery. All historical data are in the ethereum_blockchain dataset, which updates daily.

Our hope is that by making the data on public blockchain systems more readily available it promotes technological innovation and increases societal benefits.

Querying BigQuery tables

You can use the BigQuery Python client library to query tables in this dataset in Kernels. Note that methods available in Kernels are limited to querying data. Tables are at bigquery-public-data.crypto_ethereum.[TABLENAME]. Fork this kernel to get started.

Acknowledgements

Cover photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

Inspiration

• What are the most popularly exchanged digital tokens, represented by ERC-721 and ERC-20 smart contracts?
• Compare transaction volume and transaction networks over time
• Compare transaction volume to historical prices by joining with other available data sources like Bitcoin Historical Data

Context

Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2008, hundreds of similar projects based on the blockchain technology have emerged. We call these cryptocurrencies (also coins or cryptos in the Internet slang). Some are extremely valuable nowadays, and others may have the potential to become extremely valuable in the future1. In fact, on the 6th of December of 2017, Bitcoin has a market capitalization above $200 billion.

Content

The cryptocurrency market is exceptionally volatile2 and any money you put in might disappear into thin air. Cryptocurrencies mentioned here might be scams similar to Ponzi Schemes or have many other issues (overvaluation, technical, etc.). Please do not mistake this for investment advice. *

2 Update on March 2020: Well, it turned out to be volatile indeed :D

That said, let's get to business. We will start with a CSV we conveniently downloaded on the 6th of December of 2017 using the coinmarketcap API (NOTE: The public API went private in 2020 and is no longer available) named datasets/coinmarketcap_06122017.csv.

Acknowledgements

Data set is from DataCamp

This comprehensive dataset offers a thorough and meticulous analysis of Dogecoin transactions, providing a detailed and all-encompassing view. It delves into crucial metrics such as transaction volume, fees, and the overall activity of the network, shedding light on the pulse of the cryptocurrency world. The daily updates not only reflect the dynamic nature of this digital landscape but also make this dataset an essential tool for a diverse range of individuals. Whether you're an astute financial expert conducting in-depth market analyses, a curious researcher unraveling the complexities of the blockchain, or simply a passionate cryptocurrency enthusiast eager to stay informed, this dataset caters to your needs.

If you require further insights or have any inquiries regarding this dataset, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@blockchair.com. Our team is dedicated to assisting you and ensuring you maximize the value of the information provided.

Authors, through Twitter API, collected this database over eight months. These data are tweets of over 50 experts regarding market analysis of 40 cryptocurrencies. These experts are known as influencers on social networks such as Twitter. The theory of Behavioral economics shows that the opinions of people, especially experts, can impact the stock market trend (here, cryptocurrencies). Existing databases often cover tweets related to one or more cryptocurrencies. Also, in these databases, no attention is paid to the user's expertise, and most of the data is extracted using hashtags. Failure to pay attention to the user's expertise causes the irrelevant volume to increase and the neutral polarity to increase considerably. This database has a main table named "Tweets1" with 11 columns and 40 tables to separate comments related to each cryptocurrency. The columns of the main table and the cryptocurrency tables are explained in the attached document. Researchers can use this dataset in various machine learning tasks, such as sentiment analysis and deep transfer learning with sentiment analysis. Also, this data can be used to check the impact of influencers' opinions on the cryptocurrency market trend. The use of this database is allowed by mentioning the source. Also, in this version, we have added the excel version of the database and Python code to extract the names of influencers and tweets. in Version(3): In the new version, three datasets related to historical prices and sentiments related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Binance have been added as Excel files from January 1, 2023, to June 12, 2023. Also, two datasets of 52 influential tweets in cryptocurrencies have been published, along with the score and polarity of sentiments regarding more than 300 cryptocurrencies from February 2021 to June 2023. Also, two Python codes related to the sentiment analysis algorithm of tweets with Python have been published. This algorithm combines RoBERTa pre-trained deep neural network and BiGRU deep neural network with an attention layer (see code Preprocessing_and_sentiment_analysis with python).

In March 2024 Bitcoin BTC reached a new all-time high with prices exceeding 73000 USD marking a milestone for the cryptocurrency market This surge was due to the approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds ETFs in the United States allowing investors to access Bitcoin without directly holding it This development increased Bitcoin’s credibility and brought fresh demand from institutional investors echoing previous price surges in 2021 when Tesla announced its 15 billion investment in Bitcoin and Coinbase was listed on the Nasdaq By the end of 2022 Bitcoin prices dropped sharply to 15000 USD following the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its bankruptcy which caused a loss of confidence in the market By August 2024 Bitcoin rebounded to approximately 64178 USD but remained volatile due to inflation and interest rate hikes Unlike fiat currency like the US dollar Bitcoin’s supply is finite with 21 million coins as its maximum supply By September 2024 over 92 percent of Bitcoin had been mined Bitcoin’s value is tied to its scarcity and its mining process is regulated through halving events which cut the reward for mining every four years making it harder and more energy-intensive to mine The next halving event in 2024 will reduce the reward to 3125 BTC from its current 625 BTC The final Bitcoin is expected to be mined around 2140 The energy required to mine Bitcoin has led to criticisms about its environmental impact with estimates in 2021 suggesting that one Bitcoin transaction used as much energy as Argentina Bitcoin’s future price is difficult to predict due to the influence of large holders known as whales who own about 92 percent of all Bitcoin These whales can cause dramatic market swings by making large trades and many retail investors still dominate the market While institutional interest has grown it remains a small fraction compared to retail Bitcoin is vulnerable to external factors like regulatory changes and economic crises leading some to believe it is in a speculative bubble However others argue that Bitcoin is still in its early stages of adoption and will grow further as more institutions and governments recognize its potential as a hedge against inflation and a store of value 2024 has also seen the rise of Bitcoin Layer 2 technologies like the Lightning Network which improve scalability by enabling faster and cheaper transactions These innovations are crucial for Bitcoin’s wider adoption especially for day-to-day use and cross-border remittances At the same time central bank digital currencies CBDCs are gaining traction as several governments including China and the European Union have accelerated the development of their own state-controlled digital currencies while Bitcoin remains decentralized offering financial sovereignty for those who prefer independence from government control The rise of CBDCs is expected to increase interest in Bitcoin as a hedge against these centralized currencies Bitcoin’s journey in 2024 highlights its growing institutional acceptance alongside its inherent market volatility While the approval of Bitcoin ETFs has significantly boosted interest the market remains sensitive to events like exchange collapses and regulatory decisions With the limited supply of Bitcoin and improvements in its transaction efficiency it is expected to remain a key player in the financial world for years to come Whether Bitcoin is currently in a speculative bubble or on a sustainable path to greater adoption will ultimately be revealed over time.

Ethereum Classic is a cryptocurrency with shared history with the Ethereum cryptocurrency. On technical merits, the two cryptocurrencies are nearly identical, differing only in programming language features supported by the Ethereum Virtual machine which is used to write smart contracts. This dataset contains the blockchain data in their entirety, pre-processed to be human-friendly and to support common use cases such as auditing, investigating, and researching the economic and financial properties of the system. Interested in learning more about how Cloud Public Data is working to make data from blockchains and cryptocurrencies more accessible? Check out our blog post on the Google Cloud Big Data Blog and try the sample query below to get started. This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery .

Dash is a cryptocurrency governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) run by a subset of users, called "masternodes". The currency permits fast transactions that are difficult to trace. This dataset contains the blockchain data in their entirety, pre-processed to be human-friendly and to support common use cases such as auditing, investigating, and researching the economic and financial properties of the system. This dataset is part of a larger effort to make cryptocurrency data available in BigQuery through the Google Cloud Public Datasets program . The program is hosting several cryptocurrency datasets, with plans to both expand offerings to include additional cryptocurrencies and reduce the latency of updates. You can find these datasets by searching "cryptocurrency" in GCP Marketplace. For analytics interoperability, we designed a unified schema that allows all Bitcoin-like datasets to share queries. Interested in learning more about how the data from these blockchains were brought into BigQuery? Looking for more ways to analyze the data? Check out the Google Cloud Big Data blog post and try the sample queries below to get started. This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery .