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Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by axpence on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:48AM (#15929899)
Can you share some insight into how you are counting mentions of coins on Reddit? For example, the coin Golem has the potential for overlap with the character Golem in Lord of the Rings. Are you browsing a pre-set number of subreddits?

Likewise would love some clarity on how you're collecting twitter stream data and properly tagging the data to a respective coin--are you using preset tags?

Would love to see an API endpoint for this type of thing. Kudos!

Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:40AM (#15923094)
I've built a tool that keeps track of the activity of top30 crypto coins on Reddit and Twitter. Looking for some feedback!
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by sharemywin on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:44AM (#15923115)
Would be cool to add sentiment analysis to this.

https://konghq.com/blog/list-of-20-sentiment-analysis-apis/

Also, would be cool to have an api and/or historical data.

I've been looking at a way to build a crypto trading bot based on sentiment analysis as well as price movement.

Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:46AM (#15923135)
Yes, that's my next step. If you check out the Ripple or Litecoin graphs you can see that there's already a pattern. But having a sentiment analysis would abosulutely make it even better!
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by sharemywin on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:44AM (#15923118)
might want to add some of the forums

ie. Golem: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1655002.0

worldcoinindex has discussion links on a lot of their coin pages

Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:14AM (#15923398)
Nice interesting, will look at that!
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by kalckoen on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:42AM (#15923102)
Interesting! How is the Twitter data analysed? I see some patterns there?
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:13AM (#15923390)
Counted based on tags from their Streaming API
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by revx on Thursday December 14, 2017 @05:44PM (#15927954)
I don't understand what the time scale is here. Bitcoin is down by 18% ... over what?
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:30AM (#15930425)
The percentages on the homepage are the last hour compared to the hour before.
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by fiatjaf on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:46PM (#15929541)
More activity means more people posting memes, fake rumors and "to the moon" kind of stuff. Do not underestimate human stupidity.
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:31AM (#15930430)
More people posting memes about a coin, might indicate more interest in that coin. Which might say a thing about the exchange rate.

Check this image for example: http://coinshilling.com/images/demograph.jpg

Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by sharemywin on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:01AM (#15923283)
you should offer a free account to collect emails. maybe track one coin for free. with a daily highlight email or something.
Re:Show HN: List of crypto currency activity on Reddit and T... by wiemee on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:13AM (#15923383)
Thanks, will think about that!