Bitcoin metrics [Episode 8]
Bottomshelf Bitcoin20 Maalis 2018

Bitcoin metrics [Episode 8]

Today I talked about bitcoin metrics, measurements to track in order to evaluate the health of the network and the price of Bitcoin. I demystified the metrics that I hear thrown around and we talked about what was valuable and what metrics are totally bogus. No Market Minute on this episode, I’m planning to out a seperate Market Minute episode on Wednesday.
Psuedo Fundamentals
Price and Volume
Cryptowatch – compare price, moving averages, etc. of various coins.

CoinMarketCap – Price Market Cap, 24 hour volume, rankings (which don’t matter)

Clark Moody Tickers – compare exchange prices in real time
Peer to Peer
Clark Moody Street Price – average price of peer-to-peer trades in various countries/currencies.

CoinDance – P2P exchange volumes
Transaction Fees
Fork.lol – network data comparison between Bitcoin and B-cash. Has good information on difficulty and average transaction fees.

CoreFeeHelper – Hourly updated twitter feed with good suggested fee estimation
Technicals:
Bitcoin nodes
Bitnodes

Statoshi

CoinDance
Lightning Stats
Shabang – stats

Reksplorer – Node and channel visual explorer
Other
Mayer Multiple – Current price divided by 200 day moving average. Indicator of over/under-value compared to historical price.

Github Repo – stats on updates to the code

Bitcoin Development Visualization
Donate
Patreon

Donation page

Tuttle Twins – Great kids books and a great way to support the show!
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Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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