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Table 1 Summary of datasets collected from various sources

From: Analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain: socio-economic factors behind the adoption

Data

Coverage period

Characteristic

Source

Blockchain

2009/01/09 - 2016/02/25

For each transaction: input and output Bitcoin addresses, amounts, fee, transaction timestamp*

blockchain.info [18]

IP

2009/01/09 - 2016/02/25**

For each transaction: IP address of the first node that relays the transaction

blockchain.info [18]

Bitcoin client (Bitcoin Core [19])

2009/01/09 - 2015/06/05**

Number of Bitcoin Core downloads per country, daily aggregated

sourceforge.net

Google Trends time series

2009/01/09 - 2017/02/01

Evolution of the number of queries, per country with a week resolution. The data are normalized for each country between 0 and 100.

Google

Google Trends country interest

2009/01/09 - 2017/02/01

Assigns a score to countries based on relative in-country queries. The data are normalized between 0 and 100.

Google

  1. *Timestamp of the block creation.
  2. **Effective coverage period shorter (see Bitcoin Client and Internet Protocol addresses subsections).