Bitcoin & Markets Update 1/4/18---New to bitcoin? Looking for more info? Do your own research! Start here. http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/resources and here https://bitcoin.org --- 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. ---- Sponsor https://ZeroSumMarkets.com 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/ --- 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. --- 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 Bitcoin. Run a Full Node. Music by Joakim Karud and Tennyson