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I propose to put what's before arrows in an \\eqmakebox– and added various improvement, via siunitx and caption:

\\documentclass{article}
\\usepackage{array, threeparttable, booktabs}
\\usepackage{eqparbox, siunitx}
\\usepackage[skip =6pt]{caption}

\\begin{document}

\\begin{table}[h]
      \\centering
\\sisetup{table-format=1.3, table-number-alignment=center, table-space-text-post=**, table-align-text-post=false}
  \\begin{threeparttable}
  \\caption{Transfer Entropy Results}
  \\label{tab1:correlation}
  \\begin{tabular*}{\\textwidth}{@{}l@{\\extracolsep{\\fill}}*{4}{S}}
  \\toprule
    Direction & {TE} & {ETE} & {STD} & {P-value} \\\\

    \\midrule
    \\eqmakebox[D][l]{Bitcoin} $\\rightarrow$ IPImicro & 0.015 & 0.000 & 0.023 & 0.473 \\\\
    \\addlinespace
    \\eqmakebox[D][l]{IPImicro} $\\rightarrow$ Bitcoin & 0.091 & 0.066 & 0.025 & 0.027** \\\\
    \\addlinespace
    \\eqmakebox[D][l]{Bitcoin} $\\rightarrow$ IPImacro & 0.007 & 0.000 & 0.028 & 0.650 \\\\
    \\addlinespace
   \\eqmakebox[D][l]{IPImacro} $\\rightarrow$ Bitcoin & 0.073 & 0.044 & 0.027 & 0.066** \\\\
    \\bottomrule
  \\end{tabular*}
  \\begin{tablenotes}[para,flushleft]
  \\footnotesize\\smallskip
  \\item\\hspace{-2.5pt}\\noindent\\textit{Note:} This table presents the Transfer Entropy estimation results. H0: No information flow. Statistical significance is based on a bootstrapped Markov chain of the transfer entropy estimates with 300 bootstrap replications. Note that the sign and the numerical value of the transfer Entropy cannot be compared, i.e. determining the magnitude and dominant direction of the information flow is not possible (\\cite{behrendt2019rtransferentropy}). We also test a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and test for Granger causality (Table \\ref{tab1:var} and \\ref{tab1:granger} in the Appendix). However, because it is limited to linear relationships, the VAR model could not reveal any relationship between IPImicro, IPImacro and Bitcoin. Standard deviation in parentheses; *** $ p < 0.01 $; ** $p < 0.05 $; * $ p < 0.10 $.
  \\end{tablenotes}
  \\end{threeparttable}
\\end{table}

\\end{document}

Some suggestions and comments:

• As @daleif has already suggested in a comment, set up a dedicated column for the \\rightarrow symbols.

• Your code has way too many \\multicolumn wrappers; cull them ruthlessly.

• The \\centering directive is not needed since the width of the tabular* environment is set to \\textwidth.

• The tabular* environment should have 4, not 5, columns of type c.

• The \\caption statement should be inside, not outside the threeparttable environment. (The three formal parts of a threepartable environment are the caption, the tabular-like environment, and the tablenotes environment.

• There seems to be no compelling need for the threeparttable machiner since there are no \\tnote directives in your code.

\\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\\usepackage{threeparttable}
\\usepackage{%longtable, 
             booktabs, %tabularx
             array}
\\newcolumntype{C}{>{${}}c<{{}$}} % for math symbols such as "\\to"
\\begin{document}

\\begin{table}[h]
    \\setlength\\tabcolsep{0pt}
      %\\begin{threeparttable}
      %%\\centering % is redundant
    \\caption{Transfer Entropy Results}
    \\label{tab1:correlation}
    \\begin{tabular*}{\\textwidth}{ lCl @{\\extracolsep{\\fill}} *{4}{c}}
    \\toprule
    \\multicolumn{3}{l}{Direction} &  TE & ETE & STD & P-value \\\\

    \\midrule
    Bitcoin  &\\to& IPImicro & 0.015 & 0.000 & 0.023 & 0.473 \\\\
    \\addlinespace
    IPImicro &\\to& Bitcoin  & 0.091 & 0.066 & 0.025 & 0.027**  \\\\
    \\addlinespace
    Bitcoin  &\\to& IPImacro & 0.007 & 0.000 & 0.028 & 0.650  \\\\
    \\addlinespace
    IPImacro &\\to& Bitcoin  & 0.073 & 0.044 & 0.027 & 0.066**  \\\\
    \\bottomrule
    \\end{tabular*}
%\\begin{tablenotes}[para,flushleft]

    \\medskip
    \\footnotesize
    \\textit{Note:} This table presents the Transfer Entropy estimation results. H0: No information flow. Statistical significance is based on a bootstrapped Markov chain of the transfer entropy estimates with 300 bootstrap replications. Note that the sign and the numerical value of the transfer Entropy cannot be compared, i.e. determining the magnitude and dominant direction of the information flow is not possible (\\cite{behrendt2019rtransferentropy}). We also estimate a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and test for Granger causality (Table \\ref{tab1:var} and \\ref{tab1:granger} in the Appendix). However, because it is limited to linear relationships, the VAR model could not reveal any relationship between IPImicro, IPImacro and Bitcoin. Standard deviations in parentheses; *** p < 0.01; ** p < 0.05; * p < 0.10.
%  \\end{tablenotes}
%  \\end{threeparttable}
\\end{table}

\\end{document} 

one more example, with use of siunitx and threeparttablex packages:

\\documentclass{article}
\\usepackage{booktabs}
\\usepackage[referable]{threeparttablex}
\\usepackage{siunitx}
\\usepackage[skip =6pt]{caption}

\\begin{document}
    \\begin{table}[ht]
      \\centering
\\sisetup{table-format=1.3, 
         table-space-text-post=**}
\\setlength\\tabcolsep{0pt}
\\begin{threeparttable}
\\caption{Transfer Entropy Results}
\\label{tab1:correlation}
    \\begin{tabular*}{\\linewidth}{l>{\\ $\\rightarrow$\\ }l
                                 @{\\extracolsep{\\fill}} *{4}{S}}
  \\toprule
\\multicolumn{2}{c}{Direction}           & {TE}  & {ETE} & {STD} & {P-value} \\\\
    \\midrule
Bitcoin     & IPImicro    & 0.015 & 0.000 & 0.023 & 0.473     \\\\
    \\addlinespace
IPImicro    & Bitcoin     & 0.091 & 0.066 & 0.025 & 0.027**   \\\\
    \\addlinespace
Bitcoin     & IPImacro    & 0.007 & 0.000 & 0.028 & 0.650     \\\\
    \\addlinespace
IPImacro    & Bitcoin     & 0.073 & 0.044 & 0.027 & 0.066**   \\\\
    \\bottomrule
  \\end{tabular*}
  \\begin{tablenotes}[para,flushleft]\\footnotesize\\smallskip
\\note This table presents the Transfer Entropy estimation results. H0: No information flow. Statistical significance is based on a bootstrapped Markov chain of the transfer entropy estimates with 300 bootstrap replications. Note that the sign and the numerical value of the transfer Entropy cannot be compared, i.e. determining the magnitude and dominant direction of the information flow is not possible (\\cite{behrendt2019rtransferentropy}). We also test a vector autoregressive (VAR) model and test for Granger causality (Table \\ref{tab1:var} and \\ref{tab1:granger} in the Appendix). However, because it is limited to linear relationships, the VAR model could not reveal any relationship between IPImicro, IPImacro and Bitcoin. 
    \\item[***]  $p < 0.01 $; 
    \\item[**]   $p < 0.05 $; 
    \\item[*]    $p < 0.10 $.
  \\end{tablenotes}
\\end{threeparttable}
    \\end{table}
\\end{document}