Looking for more data sources

[Brites]

Hello everyone,

I'm a economics student and this year i'll write a paper that (hopefully) will be published in my local university. i decided to do this paper on finance and computational methods. More precisely, crypto-currency. Obviously i need to decide a narrower theme. and for better choosing it, i need information on bitcoin. which is kinda weird theme, since most of the economics articles out there, regading this topics are almost always just trying to say "what is bitcoin".

I've seen in this forum (and in many other websites) several charts regading prices, number of transactions, values, inflation and etc. But i don't know where exactly that information came from. Is there a database on bitcoin information?

So basically i have two question.

1) What info is secured from bitcoins and bitcoin trades? (Things like, how many transactions there were on a given day, the number o active wallets, amount of bitcoin transationed, the continent in which these transactions were made...)

2)Where can i access them?

Since my ideas are very pn heavy the statistical side, the more info the best.

Info on crypto-currencies other than bitcoin  are a bonus.

[gweedo]

1) What info is secured from bitcoins and bitcoin trades? (Things like, how many transactions there were on a given day, the number o active wallets, amount of bitcoin transationed, the continent in which these transactions were made...)

You probably want to look at days destroyed it is a way of calculating a good estimated volume of bitcoins a day in transactions. You really can't get a good number on how many wallets but if I had guess I would say about 5 million people use bitcoin today.