4.1.1. Data Description

Monthly BTCUSD transactions occurring on the significant BTC exchanges, available at blockchain.com from 18 August 2010 and ending on 17 September 2018, including 24 variables, have been examined. Dependent variables can be categorized into Macroeconomic indicators and Blockchain information indicators obtained via provided API at blockchain.com (see Table 3). Some descriptive statistics, including minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation, have been calculated and shown in Table A1 in the Appendix A.1 to describe or summarize the data.


