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How People's Sentiment and Attention Affect the Return of Bitcoin?
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aslani, Shirin (Supervisor) ; Talebian, Masoud (Co-Supervisor)
Abstract
With the huge growth of cryptocurrencies in recent years, the attention of investors has been drawn to predict and invest in it. Because of the high volatility of this market, which includes a large share of Bitcoin, there is a need for good forecasting in it. Although past studies have been able to accurately predict the price of Bitcoin using fundamental variables and variables related to the blockchain network, less attention has been paid to the use of variables related to investor sentiments in this market. In this research, variables widely used in the literature that show the emotions and attention of investors, such as sentiment analysis of Twitter texts, Google search index,...