Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152008
Title: Behavioral structure of users in cryptocurrency market
Authors: Aspembitova, Ayana
Feng, Ling
Chew, Lock Yue
Keywords: Business::Finance
Issue Date: 2021
Source: Aspembitova, A., Feng, L. & Chew, L. Y. (2021). Behavioral structure of users in cryptocurrency market. PLoS ONE, 16(1), e0242600-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242600
Journal: PLoS ONE
Abstract: Human behavior as they engaged in financial activities is intimately connected to the observed market dynamics. Despite many existing theories and studies on the fundamental motivations of the behavior of humans in financial systems, there is still limited empirical deduction of the behavioral compositions of the financial agents from a detailed market analysis. Blockchain technology has provided an avenue for the latter investigation with its voluminous data and its transparency of financial transactions. It has enabled us to perform empirical inference on the behavioral patterns of users in the market, which we explore in the bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrency markets. In our study, we first determine various properties of the bitcoin and ethereum users by a temporal complex network analysis. After which, we develop methodology by combining k-means clustering and Support Vector Machines to derive behavioral types of users in the two cryptocurrency markets. Interestingly, we found four distinct strategies that are common in both markets: optimists, pessimists, positive traders and negative traders. The composition of user behavior is remarkably different between the bitcoin and ethereum market during periods of local price fluctuations and large systemic events. We observe that bitcoin (ethereum) users tend to take a short-term (long-term) view of the market during the local events. For the large systemic events, ethereum (bitcoin) users are found to consistently display a greater sense of pessimism (optimism) towards the future of the market.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152008
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242600
Schools: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Organisations: Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR
Research Centres: Complexity Institute 
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Centre 
Rights: © 2021 Aspembitova et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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