Bottomshelf Bitcoin

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Bottomshelf Bitcoin

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“Special Spotlight” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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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

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In this episode I interviewed Clark Moody and we discussed the Bitcoin scaling debate and implementation of SegWit. While we focused on the scaling issues, SegWit also addressed a number of other issues. If you’d like to know more, hit the Bitcoin.org link below.

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Exchange tickers

Street Price Indicator

Picks & Shovels Co

Segwit

Bitcoin.org’s write up on SegWit

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In this episode I talked about altcoins. I discussed the prominent altcoins and the issues in Bitcoin, real or imagined, that they attempt to solve.

Market Minute:

BTC price: $9,728

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $0.97

24 hour volume: $7.2B / 752k BTC

Market cap: $164 billion

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – $8510, mayer multiple=1.14x

Transaction fees: 57.86 sats/Byte(24) 36.5 sats/Byte(7d)

Suggested fees (sats/B): 106 next block, 101 next hour, 2.4 same day

Coin.Dance was running maintenance and I was unable to get info on Bisq or Localbitcoins

AltCoins:

LiteCoin

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li* a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3djwj/ethereum-wallet-parity-knew-about-critical-flaw-that-let-user-devops199-lock-up-millions"Parity Wallet hack/a – Turns out it was worse than what I said in the episode, $150M!/li

li* a href=https://medium.com/@tuurdemeester/critique-of-buterins-a-proof-of-stake-design-philosophy-49fc9ebb36c6">Critique of Ethereum’s Proof of Stake Model

Doge

* Main site

* Wiki

Monero

* Main site

* Ring Signatures

Zcash

* Main site

* Technical Paper for zkSNARKS

DASH

* Main Site

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In this episode I talked about who controls Bitcoin, who writes the code for the Bitcoin protocol and how improvements and updates are made. Follow the links below for more information on open-source projects, Github, and Bitcoin’s process specifically.

Show Notes:

Market Minute:

BTC price: $10,872

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $1.08

24 hour volume: $8.2B / 792k BTC

Market cap: $183 billion

Coins in Circulation: 16.8M

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – $8244.77, mayer multiple=1.29x

Transaction fees: 36 sats/Byte(24) 39.6 sats/Byte(7d)

Suggested fees (sats/B): 5.0 next block, 3 next hour, 2.4 same day

localbitcoins – $53.9M(global)/ $6.7M(USA) last 7 days

bisq – $90k(global)/ $15.9k(USA) last 7 days

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GitHub

What is git and Github?

Github

Bitcoin’s process

Bitcoin github repsitory

Noded episode with John Newbery

Visualization of Bitcoin Development

Other stuff

Michael Phelps photo

Codecademy

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Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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Today we’re talking about keeping your bitcoins safe. Get your bitcoins off of exchanges as soon as possible and move them in to some mix of software wallets and cold storage. I discussed various wallets and risk versus convenience.

Show Notes

Market Minute:

BTC price: $8457

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $0.84

24 hour volume: $7.5B / 905k BTC

Market cap: $142 billion

Coins in Circulation: 16.8M

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – 8021.15, mayer multiple=1.05x

Transaction fees: 69sats/Byte(24) 74.5sats/Byte(7d)

Suggested fees (sats/B): 91.3next block, 10 next hour, 4.9 same day

localbitcoins – $102.8M(global)/ $7.1M(USA) last 7 days

bisq – $272k(global)/ $24.5k(USA) last 7 days

Software Wallets:

Bitcoin Core

Electrum

Samourai

Bread

Hardware Wallets:

Trezor

Ledger

Opendime

Coldcard

Paper Wallets:

Infographic on Paper Wallets

Paper wallets video

Other Links:

Blockstream Satellite Secure your wallet from Bitcoin.org

Paper Wallets

Glacier Protocol

Bitfinex redistributes coins after losses

Mt.Gox – worst exchange hacking

BTC-e users caught in limbo

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Today we’re discussing the three main avenues of buying bitcoin, buying in person, centralized exchanges, and decentralized exchanges. There are risks and benefits of each as we discuss in today’s show.

Show Notes:

Market Minute

BTC price: $11044

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $1.10

24 hour volume: $7.8 billion

Market cap: $186 billion

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – 7547.29, mayer multiple=1.47x

Transaction fees: 109sats/Byte(24) 150sats/Byte(7d)

localbitcoins – $80.2M(global)/ $7.9M(USA) last 7 days

bisq – $234,440(global)/ $20,570(USA) last 7 days

Buying in person

* LocalBitcoins

* Paxful

* Clark Moody’s Street Price Indicator

Centralized Exchanges

* Gemini

* Bitstamp

* Kraken

* Bitfinex

Exchange Comparisons

* Clark Moody’s Exchange Tickers – uncheck ‘all’, then add back the ones you want to compare

* Cryptowatch

Decentralized

* Bisq

* Hodl Hodl – not yet active

Articles

* Article about batching

* KYC/AML forum thread

* Wikipedia articles on KYC and AML

* Bitcoin.org’s list of SegWit Adoption

Hardware Wallets

* Trezor

* OpenDime and ColdCard

* Ledger

Other:

* Sorry the images on twitter about Coinbase outages have been taken down since 🙁

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Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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Today we’re talking about the blockchain and how it keeps bitcoin transactions honest and secure. If you missed Episode 1, we talked about what Bitcoin is and why you should care.

Show Notes:

* Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five

* Mining and Blockchain

* DASH school – first three videos

* BitcoinCore – can serve as both node and wallet software

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Show Notes:

Explain Bitcoin Like I'm Five: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/explain-bitcoin-like-im-five-73b4257ac833

Mining and Blockchain - https://qz.com/154877/by-reading-this-page-you-are-mining-bitcoins/

DASH school (first three videos)- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiFMZOlhgsYKKOUOVjQjESCXfR1cCYCod

Choose Your Wallet - Bitcoin.org's recommendations

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/ - BitcoinCore, can serve as both node and wallet software

http://www.samouraiwallet.com - Best wallet for Android

https://itunes.apple.com/app/breadwallet/id885251393 - Bread, iOS wallet

Today we’re discussing the fundamentals of what Bitcoin is, and what it can do for you.

Show Notes:

* Andreas Antonopoulos Youtube

* Bitcoin & Markets Podcast

* Bitcoin & Markets Resources

* Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five

* You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real

* A good basic explanation of money

* Money Supply in the United States

Sorry I couldn’t find the reddit story about the credit card thief.

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Music Credits:

Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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Fatherhood by Joakim Karud

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