Bitcoin mempool growth and trading volumes: Integrated approach based on QROF Multi-SWARA and aggregation operators

【Author】 Mikhaylov, Alexey; Dincer, Hasan; Yuksel, Serhat; Pinter, Gabor; Shaikh, Zaffar Ahmed

【Source】JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE

【影响因子】11.219

【Abstract】Investors are looking for objects in which they invest their funds successfully, evaluating the effectiveness of alternative markets and their instruments. Historically, cash flow indicators most effectively reflected the mood of the masses in relation to any financial asset, both in the short-and long-term. This article examines in detail the queue of already completed, but not confirmed transactions in the bitcoin network. The mem-pool is able to timely display the growth in the number of transactions awaiting confirmation, which makes it a leading indicator of future cash flows that could affect the trading volumes and market prices of bitcoin. This study evaluates bitcoin mempool priorities and two different analyses have been conducted for this pur-pose. Firstly, the mempool periods are examined through a statistical analysis. Secondly, the performance determinants of mempool are assessed with q-ROF Multi-SWARA. In addition to q-ROF sets, weights are computed with IFS and PFS. Demonstrated here is that the results of all fuzzy sets are identical. This outcome explains the reliability of the findings and they indicate that a transaction is the most important determinant of the bitcoin mempool. It emerged that the adjusted mempool data (+16.7%) for 7-day and 30-day moving averages was able, with a time lag of 24-48 h, to indicate significant volatility of future bitcoin trading vol-umes (+1.6%) on average. The obtained values confirm the empirical conclusion reached here that the mem-pool growth leads to cash flow growth. An increase in future cash flows results in a substantial rise in future trading volumes. The key takeaway from the analysis is that mempool is able to effectively predict future increases in trading volumes based on the prior cash flow growth projected into mempool growth. However, as a price indicator, mempool does show mixed results with mostly uncertainty in the direction of price movement.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. on behalf of Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

【Keywords】Bitcoin; Cryptocurrencies; Mempool; Transaction

【发表时间】2023 JUL-SEP

【收录时间】2023-09-08

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