Bitcoin & Markets Update 1/4/18
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PRICES
Bitstamp: $14,550
1 finney: $1.45
Mayer Multiple: $6362 = 2.28
3M Futures: $15,570
spread: + $1000 - 6.8%
CME Futures 1M - $14,570
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.html
MARKET SIZE and METRICS
Market Cap: $251 B
Global MC: $765 B
Maximalist Price: $45,611
BTC dollar value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $2.8 B
Avg tx Val: $7,198
NETWORK STATS
Difficulty: est. +13% in 8 days
http://fork.lol/pow/retarget - New stats and look, I like it.
https://cryptothis.com/diff/
Mempool: 9MB, JoHoe's site says 175MB, big discrep but has to do with size of fee
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m
Merged PRs: 5 merged PRs and 17 closed issues
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse
OTC VOLUME
Localbitcoins: $88M/wk
Paxful: $9M/wk
LedgerX: $3.9M/wk
http://data.ledgerx.com/
Total public OTC data: $147M/wk last
PSA: Centralized exchanges are invasive, slow and outside your control. Check out p2p exchanges like https://bisq.network/
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Market Cap Attack
Loppcoin
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/948547504844484615
Proof of Work in Society
https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/948563382009057285
Ghana Central Bank interest in Bitcoin Reserves
http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Invest-1-of-Ghana-s-reserves-in-bitcoin-Ndoum-to-BOG-614105
Hackernoon
https://hackernoon.com/tokenising-the-enterprise-klingon-style-65e695e416a8
The purpose of bitcoin is to grow.
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