xchrix,

any possibility you could give access to the historical (daily price/volume) data for research purposes?

An important topic to discuss.
I come from economics and computational social science background. Recently, there has been increasing interest in characterizing diversity (social, economic, ideas, racial, ...) and its correlation with success metrics such as innovation or socioeconomic status. For example, look at this paper. . There has been growing evidence that creative people are found in loose networks of diverse backgrounds. Businesses are trying to create dissensus and diversity to gain the competitive edge in the rapidly changing economy.

"It is important to diversify by considering more than one strategy at a time, because as our environment changes, the old strategies stop working and new strategies take the lead. Therefore, it’s not the strategies that have been most successful that you want to follow; it’s the strategies that will be most successful that you have to find."

In economics, people think of diversity as how uniform the resources are distributed among possible options. Monopoly is the extreme opposite of diversity since it means all resources and attention are spent on a single option. There has been numerous studies showing that monopoly is useful for stability (only in short-term), but kills innovation.
In this context, I think cryptocurrencies are not diverse at all. The whole community has gathered around a single currency (i.e. bitcoin). All attention and resources are spent non-uniformly on a single idea (bitcoin). I think this might in fact be bad for cryptocurrencies since cryptocurrency as a concept is in its infancy and to get mass momentum it should adopt as many new idea as possible to evolve. To gain more popular support, the cryptocurrency community must be as diverse as possible so that it can find allies from all spectrums of economic policy. This means more altcoins, and more uniform distribution of attention among cryptocurrencies. Now I agree that there are many crappy altcoins out there or there are people who are abusing the idea of cryptos to make money. But I believe the market will collectively identify and purge these toxic coins. But it is crucial to leave the comfort zone, be open to new ideas and invest in new legit altcoins. In the long-term the ideas of all altcoins combined together (if given enough oppurtunity) will contribute to making the whole crypto ecosystem more popular.

If reviving old coins, instead of creating new ones, has a better chance of gaining attention thus diversifying ideas in the whole crypto community, then I am all for it.

Hi alt19,
I have been looking at your data. It has proved to be very useful. But I have a question: it looks like the data does not go back far enough to the first trading day. For example,
Franko coin (FRK) first trading date on cryptsy is in June 2013:
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/FRK_BTC

but FRK_BTC in your data starts out on April 2014. In fact, it looks like April 2014 is the earliest date for which there is data available for any pair.
Do you have historical data that goes earlier than April 2014?

thanks

Thanks alt19. This is great!

One question: does the data go back all the way to the first trading day on cryptsy for each altcoin? or you started collecting the data for each altcoin as soon as you learned about the new altcoin?

I realized that coins that were added after September 29, 2014 have an extra column. Not exactly sure what you mean by high low volume.
You might want to add csv header for coins after that date.
Great tool!

Hello,

I am working on a research project studying trader movements from one altcoin to another. I have been looking for historical price/volume data for all altcoins (per day). Something like coinmarketcap would be amazing, but coinmarketcap API only provides recent data. There are many other websites like quandl, cryptocoinchart.info and worldcoinindex, but they either don't go back far enough in time, don't provide an API for historical data or don't include all altcoins.

I tried to understand how coinmarketcap tooltip data is extracted from svg, but no luck there.

anybody has a good suggestion where I could get daily price/volume for all (or majority) of altcoins going back far enough in time?

thanks

Why are the volume numbers for the same day different when I switch from YTD to 3M?

Also, the volume numbers are too high (seems like a bug) when you switch to fine grained views like 1d or 7d.

Is it possible to download the historical data per coin for research purposes?
-a grad student

Hello folks,

thanks for the replies.

blockchain.info has time-series data on hashrate and difficulty, but only on bitcoin and no altcoin. I would have to use difficulty from the blockchain.

On the issue of multipools: I am interested on how individual miners collectively converge to a specific coin over time or how a large collection of individuals react to shocks. Now, multipools strip away the individual decision making part of this study because small number of analysts make a decision for possibly a large number of miners. My question is how frequent are these multipools? are they popular among miners? or miners still make individual decisions?

merged mining would also have the same effect, because the miner does not have to decide where to invest his resources: he can use the same recourse on all coins. So how popular is merged mining?

markm and Nxtblg, thanks for the great insights.

From markm response, it sounds like delay in reacting to market trend contributes to exacerbating the very same market trend, either rising or dropping. This is good for me, because I would still consider it in the basket of "herding effects", rather than attackers (i.e. pump and dumps). I am mainly interested in studying the herding effects, so I am very concerned about capturing trends that are due to pump and dumps. Based on your experiences, how often are these deliberate pump and dumps and do they ever result in big shocks?

I have another question: I would like to study how miners migrate from altcoin "a" to other altcoins after extreme shocks in altcoin "a" price. In other words, I want to understand what strategies miners adopt for distributing their computing resources across different altcoins. What are some  accepted strategies in the community regarding distribution of your computing resources?

Ideally, I would like to have access to a data source on total computing resources spent on each altcoin over time. I could also use a proxy for the total computing resources such as hashing difficulty. Do you know of any such data source?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I am a graduate student starting to work on a research project related to fluctuation of BTC and altcoin prices. I am mainly interested in understanding the dynamics of the big rises and drops shortly after a new coin is introduced to the market. I have noticed that majority of altcoins follow this pattern at some point during their lifetime. I am aware of the existence of pump and dump schemes, but from what I have gathered pump and dumps usually happen within a period of hours whereas the big rise/drops happen within a period of days. I appreciate any insight into the following questions:

1- Are these big rise/drops really pump and dumps? or there are actual herding effects going on without the existence of attackers (pump and dump players)?

2- I need historical data on total hashing/compute power that is put into every coin per day or alternatively hashing difficulty per coin per day. Do you know of any source I could get this data?

Thanks in advance