"Altcoin Bugs and Lightning Full Steam Ahead" - 5/8/2018

=== BITCOIN & MARKETS === block height 521,720 - 5/8/18Search the show on Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, and Stitcher Part of the World Crypto Network audio feed on Acast. 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 : $9255 (finney $0.92) 200 SMA : $10092 Mayer Multiple : 0.91 Okex Futures : (Jun) $9451 (spread $200 / 2%) CME Futures : (May) $9280 (Jun) $9335 (open interest 2,548 / 12,740 btc) Bitmex Futures : (Jun) $9417 (Sep) $9549 -------------------- MARKET SIZE and TXS -------------------- Market Cap : $158 B Global Bitcoin MC : $437 B Maximalist Price : $25,675 On chain tx (24h) : 1,294,277 btc ($12 B) Avg tx Val (24h) : 6.08 btc ($56 k) Median tx Val (24h): 0.053 btc ($489) NVT (28d) : 143 Longs / Shorts : 30,200 / 20,600 (1.46) -------------------- SECURITY and BLOCKCHAIN -------------------- Difficulty : +1.8% (last 3: 4%, 9%, 1%) Mining profitability : $0.56 THash/day Blockchain size : 196 GB Mempool : 3MB Median on chain fee : $0.40/tx -------------------- DEVELOPMENT -------------------- Merged PRs : 24 Closed issues : 7 -------------------- LIGHTNING -------------------- Capacity : 17.9 - 16 btc Channels : 5988 - 5771 Nodes : 1923 - 1789 Channels/node : 3.11 - 3.22 -------------------- GOOGLE TRENDS -------------------- 12 Mo. : 13 /100 30days : 68 /100 Trend : slightly lower -------------------- NEWS -------------------- Eltoo https://blockstream.com/2018/04/30/eltoo-next-lightning.html Samourai's do work https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/992036400374648833 Lightning apps are gathering into a storm https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/future-bitcoin-what-lightning-could-look/ Bcash bug https://www.bitcoinabc.org/2018-05-07-incident-report/ Did the ethereum SEC meeting happen or not? Bitcoin is fresh tech for the youth. They get it instinctually. Bye bye fiat. 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 THANK YOU LISTENERS! -------------------- Music by Joakim Karud and Ozzie Beats