Mar 28, 2018
=== BITCOIN & MARKETS === block height 515,525 - 3/28/18Find us on iTunes, YouTube, Soundcloud and Stitcher New to bitcoin? Start here: http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/resources **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, do your own research.** All sources are below. ========================= SUPPORT THE SHOW! -------------------- Donate BTC, LTC, Paypal : http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/donate Patreon is the best way : https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets -------------------- PRICES -------------------- Price : $8061 (finney $0.80) 200 SMA : $9319 Mayer Multiple : 0.86 Okex Futures : (Jun) $7926 (spread $150 / 1.4%) CME Futures : (Mar) $8055 (Jun) $? (open interest 1,615 / 8,075 btc) Bitmex Futures : (Mar) $8021 (Jun) $7970 -------------------- MARKET SIZE and TXS -------------------- Market Cap : $137 B Global Bitcoin MC : $307 B Maximalist Price : $18,121 On chain tx (24h) : 1,011,618 btc ($8.1 B) Avg tx Val (24h) : 5.4 btc ($43.7 k) Median tx Val (24h): 0.066 btc ($537) NVT (28d) : 140 Longs / Shorts : 37,500 / 24,500 (1.53) Public OTC : ~$90 M -------------------- SECURITY and BLOCKCHAIN -------------------- Difficulty : +1.6% in 3.9 days (last 3: 5%, 9%, 4%) Mining profitability : $0.59 THash/day Blockchain size : 191 GB Mempool : less than 1MB Median on chain fee : $0.15/tx -------------------- DEVELOPMENT -------------------- Merged PRs : 32 Closed issues : 28 -------------------- LIGHTNING -------------------- Capacity : 6.5 btc Channels : 2551 Nodes : 1094 Channels/node : 2.3 -------------------- GOOGLE TRENDS -------------------- 12 Mo. : 14 /100 30days : 63 /100 Trend : trend is reflecting lower prices, but interest is remaining constant. -------------------- NEWS -------------------- Blockstream 7 days of Lapps https://blockstream.com/blog/ - Filebazaar - Lightning Publisher - Nanotip - Paypercall - NanoPOS - Ifpaytt Zap wallet looks great https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/978504084658507777 Satoshi Vision conference Huge joke, extrememly orchestrated You could tell there was some discontent in the bcash camp Binance moves to Malta https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/the-world-s-biggest-cryptocurrency-exchange-is-moving-to-malta Earn/21 possible acquisition Emerging themes of 2018 - ICO/altcoin crackdown - price consolidation - acquisitions - regulatory arbitrage - lightning apps REGULAR SOURCES -------------------- 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 -------------------- FOLLOW -------------------- Host: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner Show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/bitcoinandmarkets THANK YOU LISTENERS! -------------------- Music by Joakim Karud and Chill Children and KVN