mgaulia / social-media-impact-cryptocurrency-thesis

This is the 3rd year thesis for my studies of Data Science at Vilnius University

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Title

Social media impact on cryptocurrencies prices

Abstract

Cryptocurrencies differ from regular financial markets in many aspects, their prices depend on totally different things than companies’ stock prices. Cryptocurrencies are decentralized, not controlled by any financial institutions, their use is very limited. One of the main things that affects cryptocurrency’s price is its popularity and people’s opinion about it shared on social media. Based on this theory we are going to explore whether social media posts about XRP cryptocurrency impact its price