Forecasting Bitcoin Price with Graph Chainlets

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Over the last couple of years, Bitcoin cryptocurrency and the Blockchain technology that forms the basis of Bitcoin have witnessed a flood of attention. In contrast to fiat currencies used worldwide, the Bitcoin distributed ledger is publicly available by design. This facilitates observing all financial interactions on the network, and analyzing how the network evolves in time. We introduce a novel concept of chainlets, or Bitcoin subgraphs, which allows us to evaluate the local topological structure of the Bitcoin graph over time. Furthermore, we assess the role of chainlets on Bitcoin price formation and dynamics. We investigate the predictive Granger causality of chainlets and identify certain types of chainlets that exhibit the highest predictive influence on Bitcoin price and investment risk.

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Costs, Industrial, Data mining, Topology, Bitcoin, Asset-liability management, Pricing, Digital currency

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NIH 1R01HG006844, NSF CNS-1111529, CICI-1547324, IIS-1633331, DMS-1736368 and ARO W911NF-17-1-0356.

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