Bitcoin & Markets 3/9/18

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PRICES 

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Bitstamp: $8746 / 1 finney: $0.87 

Mayer Multiple: Spot/200 MA ($8569) = sub 1.0 (1) 

3M BTC Settled Futures (Mar): $8811 / spread: -$100 or 1.7% 

CME Futures: Mar18 $8780 / Jun18 $8520 (2) 

Bitmex Futures: Mar18 $8814 / Jun18 $8901

MARKET SIZE and TRANSACTIONS

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Market Cap: $148 B 

Dominance Index: 100% 

Global Bitcoin MC: $332 B 

NVT (Network Value/Transaction): 108 (3)

Maximalist Price: $21,267 

USD value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $8.8 B 

Avg tx Val (24h): $47k

SECURITY

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Difficulty: est. +9% in 9 days (4)(5) 

Difficulty has been just fine and shows that all the drama is just drama.

FEES

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Mempool: 4MB, ~2 sat/b (6)(7) 

Mempool is very empty and transactions are fast.

DEVELOPMENT

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Merged PRs: 51 merged PRs and 75 closed issues (8)(9) 

Lightning Network: 4.5 btc capacity, 1822 open channels, 985 nodes - 1.8 channels/node (10)(11)

GOOGLE TRENDS (14) 

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We are lower on google trends again. Showing 18, off from a yearly high of 100. The point I make here is that this recent drop in price wasn't accompanied by a big drop in google trends.

NEWS

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Follow @BitcoinMerges: twitter.com/BitcoinMerges

Gox coins in 2000 btc addresses: gaelb.alwaysdata.net/MTgox_watch_CW/index.html

Bcash Woes

O'Dell's Tweet: twitter.com/matt_odell/status/970850312071405568 

Olivier's Tweet about merge mining: twitter.com/olivierjanss/status/970788289593651200 

Cobra: twitter.com/CobraBitcoin/status/970736614275153926

ASICBoost: bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/breaki…ndal-solutions/

Regulations will hit ICOs and altcoins hard, but leave bitcoin relatively unscaved. This will leave room for legacy interests to coopt the "blockchain" meme, ICO and altcoin narratives. Bitcoin unaffected.

SOURCES

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1. Mayer Multiple: mayermultiple.com 

2. CME futures: www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-i…dex/bitcoin.html

3. Network Value to Transaction Ratio: charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-nvt-ratio/ 

4. Network stats: fork.lol/pow/retarget 

5. Difficulty: bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty 

6. Real time fees: tradeblock.com/bitcoin/ 

7. Visualization: jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m 

8. Bitcoin github stats: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulse 

9. Ranking: www.coingecko.com 

10. LN testnet: explorer.acinq.co/#/ 

11. LN nodes: lnmainnet.gaben.win/# 

12. LedgerX: data.ledgerx.com/ 

13. Gemini Auction: gemini.com/auction-data/ 

14. Google trends "bitcoin": trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin

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