Various factors can be used to monitor usage of a subreddit. Due to the promising trading strategy generated from the factors chosen in [7], these same factors will be examined here. Posts per day indicates the number of posts made on a particular subreddit, per day. (this factor does not include comments made in response to particular posts). Subscriber growth indicates the number of new subscribers that a subreddit receives, per day. New authors indicates the number of new authors posting on a particular subreddit, per day. This current work will aim to confirm the relationship the factors identified have with price in a model-free environment, rather than with the use of a trading strategy which can potentially introduce ambiguity relating to individual factor contributions.
When bitcoin was rising last year, it seemed like a trend everyone from your grandmother to your barista was suddenly becoming hip to. Of course plenty of folks cautioned that it could be a bubble, but it’s always hard to realize such a thing when you’re in the midst of it. It’s free money, right? Why not get in on it? (Just don’t remortgage your house!)

But, why do individuals mine cryptocurrency? The most obvious answer is that some people seek a second source of income and others want more financial freedom without the interference of governments or banks. For instance, crypto miners verify the legitimacy of transactions in exchange for Bitcoin as a reward for their efforts.
Yet in some ways, the crypto crowd were not wrong. In the almost 18 months since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, the price of bitcoin has risen by about 525 per cent, from just under $8,000 to a three-month high just above $50,000 on Monday. XRP has climbed by a similar amount to trade around the $1.25 mark.