=== BITCOIN & MARKETS ===
block height 518,172 - 4/14/18
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All sources are below.
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PRICES
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Price : $8014 (finney $0.80)
200 SMA : $9596
Mayer Multiple : 0.83
Okex Futures : (Jun) $8100 (spread $80 / 1%)
CME Futures : (Apr) $7890 (Jun) $8075 (open interest 2,097 / 10,485 btc)
Bitmex Futures : (Jun) $7990 (Sep) $8008
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MARKET SIZE and TXS
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Market Cap : $135 B
Global Bitcoin MC : $317 B
Maximalist Price : $18,712
On chain tx (24h) : 1,034,693 btc ($8.2 B)
Avg tx Val (24h) : 5.33 btc ($42 k)
Median tx Val (24h): 0.068 btc ($543)
NVT (28d) : 153
Longs / Shorts : 29,800 / 24,900 (1.19)
Public OTC : ~$92 M Nothing out of the ordinary
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SECURITY and BLOCKCHAIN
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Difficulty : +9.3% (last 3: 1%, 5%, 9%)
Mining profitability : $0.55 THash/day
Blockchain size : 193 GB
Mempool : 19MB
Median on chain fee : $0.42/tx
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DEVELOPMENT
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Merged PRs : 57
Closed issues : 21
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LIGHTNING
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Capacity : 12.7 - 9.1 btc
Channels : 4732 - 3788
Nodes : 1533 - 1336
Channels/node : 3.08 - 2.9
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GOOGLE TRENDS
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12 Mo. : 15 /100
30days : 60 /100
Trend : slightly lower on both timeframes, but searches generally flat
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NEWS
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There's been a recent effort to brand Lightning Network bitcoin as an altcoin.
A network of bitcoin multisig txs is in no way an altcoin.
https://twitter.com/paullinator/status/982676892271570944
Very detailed study of LN wallet GUIs. The wallets are moving so fast, it's out of date already, but very interesting for a layperson looking on.
https://patestevao.gitbooks.io/lightning-network-ux-research/content/
History of Lightning Network by Aaron van Wirdum
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/history-lightning-brainstorm-beta/
REGULAR SOURCES
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Great source : https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
Mayer Multiple : http://mayermultiple.com
CME futures : http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.html
NVT Ratio : http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-nvt-ratio/
Network stats : http://fork.lol/pow/retarget
OTC : https://coin.dance/volume
Difficulty : https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
Real time fees : https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/
Visualization : https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m
Bitcoin github : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse
Ranking : https://www.coingecko.com
LN testnet : https://explorer.acinq.co/#/
LN nodes : https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/#
LedgerX : http://data.ledgerx.com/
Gemini Auction : https://gemini.com/auction-data/
Google trends "bitcoin": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin
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