Context
India will go ahead with a complete ban on investment in cryptocurrencies while providing existing investors a transition period to exit their holdings. Cryptocurrency isn’t fiat currency backed by the Reserve Bank of India and its usage in all forms will be banned through the new law that will be introduced in Parliament, a senior Finance Ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
The official cited earlier said India’s new law will be modeled on China’s regulatory regime, which has effectively banned on trading and usage of cryptocurrency, while the government is working on issuing its own virtual currency. China imposed a ban on initial coin offerings in 2017 and asked crypto exchanges to shut down.
Since then, the Chinese central bank has also blocked all access to all domestic and foreign cryptocurrency exchanges and ICO websites. While banning cryptocurrencies, the Indian government will allow the use of technology underlying the cryptocurrency for research or any other such purposes, the official said, adding the proposed law will be soon sent to the Union Cabinet for approval.
Read more at https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/intent-on-ban-india-to-give-transition-time-to-crypto-investors-bq-exclusive
Content
The tweets have #IndiawantsCrypto & #IndiaWantsBitcoin hashtag. Collection star started on 6/2/2021, with an initial 2k+ tweets, and will continue on a daily basis.
Information regarding the data
The data totally consists of 2k+ records with 13 columns. The description of the features is given below
| No |
Columns |
Descriptions |
| 1 |
user_name |
The name of the user, as they’ve defined it. |
| 2 |
user_location |
The user-defined location for this account’s profile. |
| 3 |
user_description |
The user-defined UTF-8 string describing their account. |
| 4 |
user_created |
Time and date, when the account was created. |
| 5 |
user_followers |
The number of followers an account currently has. |
| 6 |
user_friends |
The number of friends a account currently has. |
| 7 |
user_favourites |
The number of favorites a account currently has |
| 8 |
user_verified |
When true, indicates that the user has a verified account |
| 9 |
date |
UTC time and date when the Tweet was created |
| 10 |
text |
The actual UTF-8 text of the Tweet |
| 11 |
hashtags |
All the other hashtags posted in the tweet along with #IndiawantsCrypto & #IndiawantsBitcoin |
| 12 |
source |
Utility used to post the Tweet, Tweets from the Twitter website have a source value - web |
| 13 |
is_retweet |
Indicates whether this Tweet has been Retweeted by the authenticating user. |
Inspiration
The tweets were extracted using tweepy, Refer to this notebook for the complete extraction process https://www.kaggle.com/kaushiksuresh147/twitter-data-extraction
You can use this data to dive into the subjects that use this hashtag, look to the geographical distribution, evaluate sentiments, looks to trends.