Stack Exchange — bitcoin.stackexchange.com
The content of bitcoin.stackexchange.com (https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 159,311 rows: 74,962 posts (30,992 questions, 42,781 answers, 588 tag wiki excerpts, 589 tag wikis, 6 posts of type 6 and 6 posts of type 7) and 84,349 comments, written between 30 August 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 113,396 user accounts, 287,994 votes, 120,151 badges awarded, 969 tags, 234,658 post revisions and 12,508 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 382 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-bitcoin.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 159,311 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-bitcoin-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 159,311
- Nodes
- 159,311
- Edges
- 127,130 (directed)
- Collected
- 2011/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 70.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (159,311 rows), users (113,396 rows), x_votes (287,994 rows), x_badges (120,151 rows), x_tags (969 rows), x_post_history (234,658 rows), x_post_links (12,508 rows).
- Structure
- Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{stackexchange_2024,
title = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
author = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
year = {2024},
month = {apr},
publisher = {Internet Archive},
url = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — bitcoin.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-bitcoin.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — bitcoin.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-bitcoin.echo.directory/.