Bitcoin & Markets Update 12/9/17
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Recent chart tweet: https://twitter.com/btcmrkts/status/939466983350738944,
Prices ->
Bitstamp: $14500,
1 finney: $1.45,
Mayer Multiple: $4661 / 3.1, (was 2.6)
3M Futures: $15060,
spread: + $500,
Bitcoin Dominance Price (BDP) (including forks): $13,645 This was stupid. Nothing is going to keep up
Market Cap: $249 B,
Global MC: $413 B,
Maximalist Price: $25,528,
Avg on-chain tx value: $10,819,
BTC dollar value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $4.8 B,
Difficulty: 18% last on pace for another 7% - 11%,
http://fork.lol/pow/retarget,
https://cryptothis.com/diff/
Mempool: 60MB
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m
OTC ->
Localbitcoins: $88.9M/wk,
Paxful: $8.7M/wk,
LedgerX: $4M ($3.7M as of Friday close),
http://data.ledgerx.com/,
Total public OTC data: $101.6M $72M/wk last,
PSA: use these OTC varieties where you can. Download Bisq. Use Localbitcoins and Paxful.
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CBOE Futures are beating CME to launch, but they aren't the same thing.
http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures/contract-specifications,
Gemini Auction Data.
https://gemini.com/auction-data/,
Interactive Brokers, Petterffy to offer support for long side only of CME futures through IAB. This is to protect their customers from unlimited short losses.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/interactive-brokers-warns-of-risk-from-bitcoin-futures.html.
Japanese futures now too?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/tokyo-financial-exchange-takes-first-step-toward-bitcoin-futures
Korea bans bitcoin futures?
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/breaking-south-korea-preissues-ban-bitcoin-futures-trading/
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