News About Major Cryptocurrencies 2013-2018 (40k)

Context

Cryptocurrencies used to be a very hot topic recently. It still is, though may be not as hot. It is interesting to see what media writes about major cryptocurrencies - BTC, Ethereum, TRON, Litecoin etc.

Content

These are 40k news about major cryptocurrencies scraped from most popular online sources like CCN Bitcoin, CoinDesk, NewsBTC etc. They go with several fields:

• URL
• Title
• Text body of a news
• HTML body of a news
• Year
• Author
• Source

Inspiration

This data set can be used to benchmark summarization algorithms or to perform classification (eg. into sentiments) although additional labeling will be needed in such case.