Stemming from our goal—predict the direction of price change—we might ask ourselves, does having an actual price in dollars help to achieve this? Historically, the price of Bitcoin was usually rising, so if we try to fit a linear regression, it will show further exponential growth (whether in the long run this will be true is yet to be seen).
Transformation of historical data into a time series
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