A Sentiment Analysis on Bitcoin
The results showed that neutral sentiment was the highest result with a percentage of 48% followed by negative sentiment of 23%, positive sentiment 22%, high positive sentiment 4%, and high negative sentiment 3%.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the sentiment generated from researchers' opinions through published articles related to bitcoin. Bitcoin is related to financial operations, online monetary transactions, electronic transactions, financial control, electronic payments and electronic money. Others, bitcoin is an electronic payment tool with a peer-to-peer concept that allows users to transact with each other without the intermediary of financial institutions. The data analyzed consisted of 99 research articles indexed by Scopus in 2022. The method used is a qualitative approach with descriptive statistics from the study of bitcoin-themed literature. The results showed that neutral sentiment was the highest result with a percentage of 48% followed by negative sentiment of 23%, positive sentiment 22%, high positive sentiment 4%, and high negative sentiment 3%. The diversity of sentiment results is obtained because of the pros and cons of bitcoin's existence.