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check it out: http://blockchained.com

top 16 threads banned boards:

bannedBoards = [5, 51, 52, 53, 56, 65, 78, 73, 84, 85, 88, #marketplace
                9, # off-topic
                27, 31, 32, 33, # spanish
                30, # chinese
                16, 35, 36, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,    # german
                13, 47, 48, 49, 50, 54, # french
                28, # italian
                29, 69, 70, # portugiesisch
                10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 55, 66, 72, 90, 91, 92, # russian
                45, # skandinavian
                11, # other languages
                39, # newbies
                ]

edit: updated 2013-01-14 with some new boards

Thanks for bringing back the active topics, I sent a tip!

Very much appreciated!

Please note blockchained.com got a new donation address. Previous site had received 9 donations of together 3.75BTC - thanks guys!

playing with eMail alerts for the top16 topics. currently at a low trigger score of 100.

if you donated, send an email to alert@<my-domain-see-sig> to get alerts. (you will probably have to look for them in your spam folder).

nice work :)

thanks! ;D


btw: noticed the fit curve is somewhat off - will look into it.

thanks for the site - I thought the top threads list was gone forever when bitcoinx vanished!  Donated! :)

Will

very much appreciated!

the fit curve is fixed and some of the charts now show a qualitative info on volume (colors might still change).

I am working on charts to display forum views / post volume.

Profit calculator is up: http://blockchained.com/profit

There is also a small table about ASICs that might show up.

Sorry, site was down for a couple of hours. Server full  ::)

https://i.imgur.com/hpFOh5a.jpg

Just kidding! I really enjoy having the top 16 topics listed, especially on days I can't spend forever on the forum  :)

I had ordered more server space and found out the hard way: "Changes to the package deactivate the python engine." Oh well, python is not their first language.

Hopefully I will soon find the time to move everything to the new vServer the backend is running on already.

And now: 20 USD/BTC     cheers.  :D

did some cleaning and a new 15 day version of the depth chart:

http://www.blockchained.com/depth_mtgox_15d.png

There might be some downtime today or tomorrow. Will try to keep it as short as possible.

Argh! My homepage!!!

I came here to whine, but I see you already warned us. Thanks for keeping this great site going :)

DOOM!  Sent you some more BTC to encourage you to get it up again! :)  EDIT: argh I can't find your bitcoin address because the site is down!!!  EDIT 2: now up, and same number of BTC as before... on the way... seemed like a round number!

Cheers,

Will

Hmm... such a long time really was not what I head in mind.

After all it was not that my webhoster broke mod_python again but I had missed a problem when updating to the new MtGox ticker version... that caused some trouble and stalled the site.  ::)

My rant: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150786.msg1688171#msg1688171

Because I first thought it was mod_python's fault again I got an idea how to do things without it which should make things more stable. It's done already but might need some tweaking.

Should we remove the speculation board from the top topics?

This morning that I look through the topics most have some value but those from the speculation board...

I'm back!      2590
* zhoutong

Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker - Hardcore      2050
* I considered making this a fixed link but it actually is an indication of how much trading action is going on
(speculation board but would like to keep one lounge thread)

[8500 GH/s] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + UserDiff; ASIC tested      1161
* Slush got hacked

Ripple Giveaway!      1126
* they gave me more than a 100 $ worth of xrp

I'm a bear and proud      927
* hmm

Police State?      902
* interesting pics

SmallChange [research-only] [Litecoin based] [15 seconds blocks] [scrypt]      740
* New altcoin experiments

LTC/FC exchange via Google Docs [Bid 25 LTC | Ask 30 LTC]      493
* Interesting method of otc exchange.

Who on earth valued feather coin so high      472
* yeah, who?

[Group Buy] Avalon ASICs CHIPS! Using JohnK as Escrow! 714.4/780 BTC PLEDGED!      448
* tons of ASIC chips

mtgox claims $5 to $20 million per day incoming funds...      256
* This I even posted in the news.
edit: this one is in the speculation board, too, and very interesting.

TA is pseudoscience      194
* blablabla (speculation board)

I feel really dumb      131
* blablabla (speculation board)

Yet another analyst :)      117
* blablabla (speculation board)

FeatherCoin - Giveaway      72
* I don't give a damn but maybe others.

[POLL] What current alt crypto-currency do YOU believe in?      68
* sounds interesting

This is the old btccharts site right?   Any chance of bringing back the old theme?  That black is killing me 😄

You mean some other site. Black will stay for now. Condolences.  :P

please leave the board list as it is - or if you change it then provide an option (set by persistent cookie) to revert.  Sometimes the speculation articles are the most interesting...  What would be really useful is a direct link to 'newest posts' but I realised that's not possible by SMF design (unless you know a way)

Cheers

Will

Thanks for your feedback. Maybe I will do something like very new users don't count.

The link to newest posts is easily possible and I am willing to do it but am too lazy / distracted  ;D  Will try.

Oh right, weird, because it's exactly the same (I mean exactly the same), but black.

just to be clear, I mean that when I click on 'show new replies to your posts' and then I click on the blue [NEW] icon - it takes me to the newest post, for me.  I had a brief look and it seems like the 'show new replies to your posts' page is dynamically generated from SMF data not easily accessible via API - it wasn't just a matter of e.g. adding ;#new on the end of the URL (e.g. with vBulletin).  But if you could work out a way of doing this, that would be good.

Not suggesting that you add 'newest posts' to blockchained - this is already well covered by 'show unread posts since last visit'

Will

I, for one, like the black background. It matches my heart.

If you are looking to make changes, it would be nice to have more articles on the list, or at least the option to choose the number.

The list is SO much more useful than trying to go to the forum and try to figure out what is going on. Thanks for doing this.

That's what I had in mind: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128590.new#new
I realize now that it's not what you meant. Would still be an improvement imho.

hehe.

Unfortunately the threads become more random the more I show. I am ok with 16 for now.

Welcome :)

(And now I will put tons of blinking ads on the site  ;D)

banned topics: 187638, 188179, 188104

With all the trolls I will have to do something to keep the top topics clean.

https://static.prtst.net/asset-proxy/2c2cefb19fcf3448926cf5faa6788ff8ebd8b5a8/687474703a2f2f7777772e6a6f6e636f34382e636f6d2f626c6f672f666565645f32306d652e6a7067/http://www.jonco48.com/blog/feed_20me.jpg
DO NOT FEED!

I prefer to make my own mind up about which topics I ignore, can you please keep the top ten topics neutral.  Keeping the list current quickly becomes unmaintainable and you might be accused of bias.  As a previous (double) donator of bitcoin to you, I think my vote counts here.  What do other people think?

Any news on adding ".new#new" on the end of the hyperlinks?  Right now I'm doing it manually through copy and paste :)

Will

That's a good point. I will always try to keep the list as neutral as possible. It is understandable, though that people are bothered (and contact me about it) when several topics are FUD, especially repeatedly from the same users.

I have prepared a new method of banning topics. It also allows to ban specific users as topic starters from the list. All banned topics and banned topic starters (should I make use of this feature) will be posted in this thread.

Transisto suggested to make several top 5 lists for different categories like speculation, mining, altcoins, etc.. I think this is a good idea and I want to give it a try with one or two categories (might take some time). Another thing would be a separate list of topics voted on. Users could vote by writing !top+1! within a thread.

Thanks for the donations. I will take a look at the .new thing right now.

edit: .new#new is implemented - click >>   
On Android the page fragment identifier (#, jumps to the post within the page) does not work for me. Does it work for someone?

Thanks, I like the ">>" implementation.

I host a "share your ignore list" thread in the Donators section, You may find it excessively long but I'll PM you the list anyway as it could at least help to confirm your selection.

Hehe, that's quite a list. Yeah, the dudes i had in mind are on the list.

Six topics on the list right now are from the altcoins board... I will think about giving these a separate list of five topics or so.

What do you think about giveaways?

banntopic http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=182424.0 - artificial posts
LTC/FC exchange via Google Docs [Bid 18.50 LTC | Ask 17 LTC]

banntopic http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192892.0 - artificial posts
LTC / CNC Exchange: Google Docs 

Top topics now in several sections. Might need some tweaking. Thanks to Transisto for the suggestion.

Pure awesomeness !

What do I think about giveaways ?

 https://static.prtst.net/asset-proxy/2c2cefb19fcf3448926cf5faa6788ff8ebd8b5a8/687474703a2f2f7777772e6a6f6e636f34382e636f6d2f626c6f672f666565645f32306d652e6a7067/http://www.jonco48.com/blog/feed_20me.jpg


Other than XRP I never saw a giveaway worth posting in.  
Disclosure : I hate most altcoins.

There is a bug in the latest update that excludes the old top topics in the new splitted top topics. This means these topics are currently missing:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336 Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker - Hardcore
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194324 [GIVEAWAY]FREE BitBar! 0.01 BTB per Person
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193936 LTC / CNC Exchange: Google Docs #2
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194756 JunkCoin, the newest Litecoin-based alt coin has arrived!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193519 [ANN] BitBar New POW-POS scrypt CryptoCoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192243 [ANN] a new coin based on Litecoin - CHNCoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194396 That's it, I've lost hope in the future of crypto currencies...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194584 BTC / BTB Exchange Google Docs #2
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194803 The one has sold their coins yesterday, you would better buy them back
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194767 JunkCoin giveaway thread!!!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192653 [ANN] CHNcoin (CNC) GiveAway thread - 10000 to give - 5 CNC each
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=182656 [ANN][FTC][STRATUM] [0% Fee] feathercoin.is-a-geek.com Pool
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145506 Ripple Giveaway!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193669 Need p2pool for BitBar. Any p2pool gods??
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194894 CNC listed on bter.com!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195004 [Announcement] Block Erupter USB
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194478 [CLOSED] WTB 100k ChinaCoins(CHCs!!)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194915 [Closed]   BBQcoin giveaway thread!! 50 for every BBQ address.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194367 BTC will go down to 20
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=194418 &#9733;&#9733; &#9600;&#9604;&#9600;&#9604;&#9600; BITBAR Difficulty &#9600;&#9604;&#9600;&#9

Oops. Will take a look at it. :]

edit: done

Hey phelix,

Can you share the source for your NMC historical price data?

bitparking dark pool  ;D

just kidding, it's btc-e  -  need to update the site  ::)

Do they have a public API? If so, mind posting a link? thanks!

https://btc-e.com/api/2/nmc_btc/ticker

Thanks bud!

banntopic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198694.0 - artificial posts
anyroll's 10 BTC GIVEAWAY!

Need to bann some new gambling boards...

I am sick of manually banning new boards (mostly local/language boards). All boards >= 100 are banned now. If you would like a particular board to be included, let me know.

about the bid and ask sum graph: can you change it that they are either scaled the same way or set the y axis minimum to zero? what are you using for rendering, matplotlib? if it's that, share the axis for both. thx ;)

hmm sharing the y-axis in the 15 days graph would make the btc curve real small.

In the longer term graph the y axis minimum is zero for both curves - again with the same scale you can see nothing on the btc curve.

There is a factor of 130 between the curves after all.

Could we get top 5 for "Press" sub forum?

hmm it is part of "main". It's just not showing up currently. Just wait for the next hype cycle :)  Seriously, it would be quite similar to the board view on the forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=77.0

banntopic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238474.0 - Garr255/Werner - Auction shilling

Should we remove the scam accusations board? It might be important for traders but it is starting to annoy me...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

I would personally prefer no topics or subforums to be banned at all - including the bidding/auction boards - because if there's an auction I'm missing then looking on blockchained is a good way to find it.

Is there any way that donators can have a page available with no topics/forums banned, and the topics just in one big list of popularity (not subcategories - like the old days)?

Will

hmm... I think most people are quite happy with the new system. I will think about it but I don't feel really motivated right now :P

banntopic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244773.0 BCB is a blackmailer [title now is "." actually.... so maybe probably he is not ::)]

I will definitely remove the scam accusations board and also any topic that has "giveaway" in the title - soon.

banntopic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=246400   ! 5 Bitcoin Independence Day Raffle !

I would like the Title in white to link to their specific  (or as close as you can) section.

Good idea, added >> to the titles.

love the site, any chance getting the securities sub forum on the dashboard?
its one of the more active ones and more interesting than the speculation board in my opinion.

Thank you for this highly helpful site!

Any plans to do the graphs with BitStamp instead of MtGox? I don't find the MtGox exchangerate authoritative any more.
Either add the same as a BitStamp version, or get done with MtGox altogether ;-)

Especially the order book depth is what I fancy here.
I'll have to ask ferroh exactly the same too ;-)

Cheers!

Ente

hmm it's too specific imho. Me for example it does not interest in the slightest. And I would have to add 10 or more other boards soon.

I thought about it but it's a lot of work. I would much more prefer if gox would get things fixed.

Thanks for considering.
I prefer and hope MtGox doesn't gain 90% market share again. Nor any other single exchange.
But yeah, MtGox getting their stuff together, and be one among many major exchanges would be a good scenario.

Ente

Agreed, MtGox dominance was bad. We need a decentralized exchange.

banntopic http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=281112.0 [GIVEAWAY] Neocoin - 30 NEC per person!

Fixed a bug that caused a 15 minutes delay on every run.

Some imrovements to the site I would love!
Add a favico
Add a new category: Securities and only list threads from this subforum:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=78.0

Done. Good idea. Also played with the logo. Added a link to r/bitcoin and to a diagram of r/bitcoin page views.

https://i.imgur.com/jooNpSZ.png

Thank you very much for favico. Nice work!!

Yeah I agree that bitcoin markets can be like that. You always have to use your own judgement, but this problem exist everywhere and with every currency. Don't you think that companies that receive money can do something good with it and everyone can benefit from it?
I really thinks its possible for everyone to benefit from raising funds, I think of stock markets like Kickstarter but with potential to earn money on your investment.

This addition would make your site perfect.

Been burned too often. As of now it is much to easy to loose your coins so I don't want to encourage this subforum.

Bitcoincharts API seems to have moved to a new server so I had to update the data download interface. Charts should be working again now.

hey friend love the site any way to easily change PRICE[USD] in blue on the last two charts to scale 0-1500 or even 0-2000 would help us get a better look. similar to the way the bids vs asks operate on different scales.

Yah, atm it is hard to see anything. I thought about making the scales log...   might take a while, though.

Giveaways should now be excluded. They cause "artificial" posts and they clutter up the view.

edit:
Had forgotten about that - done.  ;)
Also finally proper tick mark colors.

Thanks, 

Please fix difficulty data, it is wrong at http://blockchained.com/

Bitcoin Network,
Current difficulty: 1180923195
Estimated next difficulty: 690281915 (-41.5%) in 7 days and 11.8 hours

http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/605/9416023019.png (http://easycaptures.com/9416023019)View Screen Capture (http://easycaptures.com/9416023019)

This is correct data for difficulty

http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/605/1310325681.png (http://easycaptures.com/1310325681)View Screen Capture (http://easycaptures.com/1310325681)

Apologies if this has already been asked somewhere in the thread, but would you consider switching the data from mtgox to bitstamp? Even better maybe doing a weighted average of the top 2 or 3 exchanges combined?

.1 coin tip coming at you if done in February  ;D

I would prefer Bitstamp, too, but the switch would mean quite some work. Also I am missing historic data for Bitstamp. Thanks for the offer, I will give it some more thought. The code certainly needs some cleanup, too.

The page is not refreshing for me. It's the same for two days now. Deleting cookies, etc does not help.
Does anyone have the same problem?

The backend server got shut down because of a bug slowing it down to a halt. Over the easter weekend it took a while until I could reach the hoster. Things *should* be more stable now.

Btw: the long time charts are now glued together from Mtgox (up to the end of 2012) and Bitstamp (starting 2013).

Excellent, works great! Thanks.

hey there phelix. I hope things are well with you. I'm a long-time fan of your site. It's my default webpage on my mobile :) I was wondering if you had any plans for updating the scale for the chart with the Mining Factor (USD/24h @ 1GHash/s). I ask because after the last difficulty increase, the line's literally touching the bottom of the chart. Keep up the fantastic work.

Looks like the scale on the mining profitability chart automatically updated itself. Not sure if you did that or not, but no further action required.  :)

Thanks!

When I looked it had already updated. Damn good programming  :P

Can you give a criteria for the "hot topics"?

Also what do you think about function which could aggregate new posts from selected members (which I can choose by my own) and then divide it by topic?

Finally got to fix the difficulty chart including the retarget time and next difficulty estimate.  :)

Oh, didn't look at blockchained for ages! Nice to see it's back, or still here! :-)

Ente

Hey, sorry to bump such an old thread, but it seems "The hottest threads on Bitcointalk.org of the last 24h" has not been updating for quite a while now, and it's a feature I use all the time :) Is this a known issue?