Bitcoin & Markets 1/18/18
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PRICES
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Bitstamp: $11,516 / 1 finney: $1.15
Mayer Multiple: Spot/200 MA ($7154) = 1.6
3M BTC Settled Futures: $11,770 / spread: + $200 or 1.5%
CME Futures Jan18 $11,470 / Mar18 $11,585 / Jun18 0 vol
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.html
Bitmex Futures Mar18 $11,722 / Jun18 $12,355
MARKET SIZE and TRANSACTIONS
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Market Cap: $191 B
Global Bitcoin MC: $504 B
Maximalist Price: $33,722
USD value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $2.8 B
Avg tx Val (24h): $8,886
SECURITY
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Difficulty: est. +9% to +15% in 7 days
http://fork.lol/pow/retarget
https://cryptothis.com/diff/
FEES
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Mempool: 11MB, ~110 sat/b
Real time: https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/
250MB if you measure everything
Visualization: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m
DEVELOPMENT
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Merged PRs: 16 merged PRs and 23 closed issues
Ethereum: 10 PRs
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse
https://www.coingecko.com
OTC VOLUME
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Coin.dance is down. These are my personal daily numbers for localbitcoins*7days
Localbitcoins: 1790*11500= $144M/wk - high estimate
Paxful: $3.5M/wk
LedgerX: $1.3M/wk
http://data.ledgerx.com/
Gemini Auction: $6.1M/wk - huge day on the 17th with a volume of 618 bitcoins
Total public OTC data: $154.9M/wk
PSA: Check out p2p exchanges like https://bisq.network/. Be careful about your privacy on the fiat half of exchanges.
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Great analysis by Josh Olszewicz @CarpeNoctum
https://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-price-analysis-the-current-bullish-pennant/
https://cryptoweekly.co/100/
GBTC Split
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Bitcoin-Investment-Trust-Announces-Stock-Split-1012960929
Bcash development is a joke
https://twitter.com/deadalnix/status/952598644099821568
Japan
Mitsubishi coin
https://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-fourth-largest-bank-mufg-to-launch-own-cryptocurrency-in-2018
DMM Exchange
https://cointelegraph.com/news/japanese-e-commerce-giant-launches-7-asset-cryptocurrency-exchange
Japanese are investing in foreign bonds
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-14/japanese-purchases-us-treasurys-tumble
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