Bitcoin & Markets Update 12/26/17
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PRICES
Bitstamp: $15,297
1 finney: $1.52
Mayer Multiple: $5600 = 2.5,
3M Futures: $16,455
spread: + $1200 - 7.8%
CME Futures 1M - $15,400
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/bitcoin.html
MARKET SIZE and METRICS
Market Cap: $259 B
Global MC: $583 B
Maximalist Price: $34,736
Avg on-chain tx value: $11,006
BTC dollar value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $2.5 B Over Xmas no less!
NETWORK STATS
Difficulty: +0% est in 6 days
http://fork.lol/pow/retarget - New stats and look, I like it.
https://cryptothis.com/diff/
Mempool: 10MB - On tradeblock by filtering the most ill-intended txs out. 200MB on JoHoe's site.
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m
Merged PRs: 21 Merges and 17 closed issues over the last 7 days, even over xmas.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse
OTC VOLUME
Localbitcoins: $133.9M/wk
Paxful: $9.8M/wk
LedgerX: $3.9M/wk
http://data.ledgerx.com/
Total public OTC data: $147.6 - $115.0M/wk last
PSA: Centralized exchanges are invasive, slow and outside your control. Check out p2p exchanges like https://bisq.network/ (hit $291k in volume!)
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