"Metrics and Externalities" - 12/26/2017

Bitcoin & Markets Update 12/26/17---New to bitcoin? Looking for more info? Do your own research! Start here. http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/resources --- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $2-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets or to donate bitcoin, litecoin or paypal http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/donate --- Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, do your own research, this is all psuedoscience. ---- 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!) --- Coinbase #FireArmstrong #LeaveCoinbase #Conbase Coinbase is in the big leagues now. They've been a bad actor in bitcoin for years, with Armstrong as a total tool. OXT.me aquired by Samourai http://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/168785913782/samourai-oxt Externalities --- Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts --- We're on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWJc6ZVFJDjI6eh7MU68Tg --- Thank you bitcoin. We are all Satoshi. Run a Full Node. Music by Joakim Karud and Kontekst