Studying the Health of Bitcoin Ecosystem in GitHub

Abstract

Bitcoin is a virtual and decentralized cryptocurrency that operates in a peer-to-peer network providing a private payment mechanism. It is a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency, and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies are created based on it. Bitcoin is based on Open-Source (OSS) software development, and OSS is a convenient way to qualitatively measure software development and growth. This thesis presents the first comprehensive study of the Bitcoin ecosystem in GitHub organized around 481 most popular and actively developed Bitcoin related projects over eight years (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018).