Stack Exchange — ethereum.stackexchange.com

The content of ethereum.stackexchange.com (https://ethereum.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 236,569 rows: 115,065 posts (53,463 questions, 60,747 answers, 418 tag wiki excerpts, 418 tag wikis, 15 posts of type 6 and 4 posts of type 7) and 121,504 comments, written between 20 January 2016 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 117,793 user accounts, 290,505 votes, 145,000 badges awarded, 987 tags, 349,668 post revisions and 14,019 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 733 rows.

#Blockchain#Cryptocurrency#Ethereum#Expertise network#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 24,906 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

24.9K
Nodes
50.1K
Edges
8.07e-05
Density
754
Components
-0.08286
Assortativity
0.6%
Reciprocity
14.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
4290.0065
45750.00574
870.0055
420.00486
246930.00462
574510.00442
230240.00426
75030.00365
328050.00333
24260.00313
Content metrics

236,569 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.056 ± 4.198
min -8max 550
x view countμ 1.5K ± 5.6K
min 3max 276.4K
x answer countμ 1.137 ± 0.949
min 0max 20
x comment countμ 1.056 ± 1.878
min 0max 34
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
contractaddressfunctionweb3publictransactionuint256codeuseerrorvalueethethereumgasuintreturntokenmsgdatasendernewtypelikestringreturnsconstblocksolidityaccountrequirecontractsneedsmartnodetokenstransfergethwantwalletconsoleblockchainnetworkprivatewaysendlogtransactionsmemoryownerawait
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
thank
question
code
work
post
help
try

Topic 1

geth
block
node
ethereum
blockchain
network
run
chain

Topic 2

array
struct
memory
byte
string
mapping
function
return

Topic 3

gas
transaction
price
limit
cost
fee
block
nonce

Topic 4

token
function
public
return
address
contract
value
owner

Topic 5

contract
deploy
function
smart
address
abi
constructor
external

Topic 6

truffle
ganache
test
lib
local
migrate
contract
network

Topic 7

transaction
event
block
receipt
filter
hash
timestamp
number

Topic 8

metamask
dapp
wallet
browser
connect
user
ethereum
app

Topic 9

datum
store
hash
trie
blockchain
contract
node
smart

Topic 10

key
private
generate
password
address
seed
wallet
account
Top hashtags
#code736
#1515
#2425
#0261
#issuecomment243
#readcontract138
#3131
#contract122
#events98
#writecontract79
#define75
#address71
#methods71
#eventlog64
#460
#the58
#include56
#web356
#get49
#using47
Top emoji
𝔹1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-ethereum-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
290,836
Nodes
24,906
Edges
50,074 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2016/2024 (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, 102.3 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 (236,569 rows), users (117,793 rows), x_votes (290,505 rows), x_badges (145,000 rows), x_tags (987 rows), x_post_history (349,668 rows), x_post_links (14,019 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 — ethereum.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-ethereum.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — ethereum.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-ethereum.echo.directory/.

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