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cryptocurrencies for the US dollar. For low frequency, I have daily prices and market capitalization data
aggregated by exchanges servers for all cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin was created in 2008. Although I
have data for close to 1,400 cryptocurrencies, most of them are barely ever traded, so I will be looking
at roughly the 30 most popular ones.
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