=== BITCOIN & MARKETS ===
block height 519,245 - 4/21/18
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PRICES
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Price : $8724 (finney $0.87)
200 SMA : $9737
Mayer Multiple : 0.89
Okex Futures : (Jun) $8772 (spread $50 / 1%)
CME Futures : (Apr) $8555 (Jun) $8540 (open interest 2,290 / 11,450 btc)
Bitmex Futures : (Jun) $8741 (Sep) $8769
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MARKET SIZE and TXS
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Market Cap : $148 B
Global Bitcoin MC : $375 B
Maximalist Price : $22,041
On chain tx (24h) : 1,443,949 btc ($12.5 B)
Avg tx Val (24h) : 6.59 btc ($57 k)
Median tx Val (24h): 0.065 btc ($566)
NVT (28d) : 158
Longs / Shorts : 29,000 / 24,100 (1.2)
Public OTC : ~$92 M
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SECURITY and BLOCKCHAIN
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Difficulty : +10.8% (last 3: 9%, 1%, 5%)
Mining profitability : $0.56 THash/day
Blockchain size : 194 GB
Mempool : 19MB
Median on chain fee : $0.17/tx
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DEVELOPMENT
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Merged PRs : 24
Closed issues : 19
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LIGHTNING
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Capacity : 15.8 - 12.7 btc
Channels : 5418 - 4732
Nodes : 1661 - 1533
Channels/node : 3.25 - 3.08
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GOOGLE TRENDS
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12 Mo. : 14 /100
30days : 63 /100
Trend : searches generally flat
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NEWS
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Localbitcoins KYC requirement
http://bitcoinist.com/bye-anonymity-localbitcoins-id-kyc/
Ethereum upgrade/voting for parity bailout
Kraken Disses NY AG
https://www.coindesk.com/kraken-ceo-crypto-exchange-wont-comply-with-new-york-inquiry/?utm_content=buffer3c51a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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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Music by Joakim Karud, Tennyson and Shinobi Fountain
