try here for a chart
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

or this query on the block explorer site will give you the raw data (you can save it as a .csv and then open in a spreadsheet app)
http://blockexplorer.com/q/nethash/2016

buying these today on Amazon by using spendbitcoins.com (just waiting for the amazon gift card in fact)



it's not the one-click ordering that Amazon is famous for but hey I figure it's a bit of extra hassle that's worth it to help the bitcoin economy to grow.

excellent work. Just sent a small tip.

I really like the extra stats Average Coin Age, Cumulative Coin-days Destroyed etc.
I don't know how difficult it would be but something like the nethash query on BBE which produces a csv would be great - or if it was something similar (i.e. giving a csv of average stats for 100 blocks or whatever) but gave stats for Average Coin Age, Cumulative Coin-days Destroyed, average tx fee that would be super.

keep up the good work. will be following with interest.

forum membership is still increasing but the rate of growth is less than it was pre-GOX. Back to pre-June 2011 levels in fact and declining. I think there was a hugh surge of press attention, that's cooled off a bit, plus the GOX incident which means that growth has slowed down. Not a bad thing in my opinion. Bitcoin is a long term project (months not days ), building the necessary services and infrastructure on top of bitcoin takes time and people expecting to double their money every week are going to be disappointed.

I uploaded the forum stats to google docs for anyone who's interested in having a look:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arbegqx_2nKadF9wa21Db1Z1S3hhNzF1QVBCX1p1U3c&hl=en_US

Most online was, no surprise, June 19 2011 (GOXED!). Since then daily logins by members has started to decline - people losing interest now that exponential USD growth has stalled perhaps? Even that high was only ~14% of the total registered forum membership base at the time - shows how small the really active user base of bitcoin is perhaps? Total membership of the forum is ~30k, GOX had ~60k customers - hard to imagine there are more than 100k bitcoin users in total. Still tiny.

Daily growth of new members has also declined post-GOXED-day. Interesting to see that there were several days of high (>400 new members/day) sign-ups before the GOX debacle but the sign-up rate has cooled off after that.

got mine. thanks.

really nice work. best looking charts i've seen.

there are definitely some members with high post counts which I wouldn't consider to be trustworthy so you can't go by post number alone.

I made this google doc to show the best exchange for buying or selling bitcoins (priced in USD)


link in my sig.

Giving this a try.

Whats the risk of having 2 addresses with the same 1st 5 characters? Or does the Firstbits shortener check for that and assign a different 5 character address if that 5 character combo is already taken?

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found the answer on the About page. http://firstbits.com/about.php
Should have looked there first


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Made some changes and found some bugs.

Now ranks the exchanges by highest bid (for selling BTC) and by lowest ask (for buying BTC).

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

thanks

was thinking about it but haven't done it yet.

made this live google doc to make it easy to see which of the large exchanges is offering the best rate.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Arbegqx_2nKadElRaFlBYWljTURCMGl0R3prTkZsU2c&single=true&gid=1&output=html

thanks ChocoboLee,

learned a lot from this. Never knew Google docs were so powerful.
I copied (stole ) many of your ideas and made this live arbitrage chart with USD/BTC prices of the largest exchanges.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Arbegqx_2nKadElRaFlBYWljTURCMGl0R3prTkZsU2c&single=true&gid=1&output=html

@Sukrim - must check out the OpenSource Alternative Block Explorer, haven't come across it yet.

Hi,

I made a live Google doc (think it updates ~every 5 mins, not sure) showing the best rate you can get buying or selling BTC at the largest exchanges. Non USD exchanges are converted to the equivalent USD rate using the Google finance rate. No accounting for fees or transactions fees (if converting from USD to GBP for example) are made. Didn't include virwoxSLL as don't think Linden dollars are listed in Google finance.

link deleted - not working anymore

The best rates should appear in order in the list.

Any thoughts why b7USD is so far off the other exchanges?

Must give a hat tip to ChocoboLee and this topic http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23422.msg294171#msg294171, as I copied many of the ideas there. never knew Google docs could be so powerful.

try it out and let me know what you think.

k

yeah thanks. enjoyed it.

thanks Monoquark,

sent you a pm. would definitely like to send you the 0.005 BTC payment though as part of what makes this interesting is having the anecdote of having participated in a micro-payment contract.

Hi,

I "mined" some shares using the deepbit pool with my cpu a few months ago when I first learned of bitcoin. I currently have 0.00845468 BTC in my deepbit account. I stopped mining a long time ago as even when I started and the difficulty was much lower than today it didn't make sense. I knew that at the time and was basically just trying it out for the fun.

The minimum payment out of deepbit is 0.01BTC. So that 0.00845468 BTC is likely to be trapped there forever. I was thinking I could offer someone half of the 0.01BTC to mine the shares to bring my account up to the necessary amount to make a withdrawal. It's not really for the BTC as it's some pathetic amount like <$0.10 but more for the principle and for the fun and being able to say you were involved in the worlds smallest (probably) bitcoin mining contract.

How will this work:

I'll set up a pay-per-share worker.
Currently according to the deepbit site So I calculate that I'll need 48 shares to bring my balance up to 0.01 BTC.

If you are interested then reply below. I'll pm you with the deepbit miner login and password. When you generate 48 (non-stale) shares and my balance goes >0.01 BTC you can stop mining for me. Then I'll send you 0.005 BTC (i'll pay the tx fee). Hopefully then I can withdraw the 0.01BTC from deepbit.

any questions or comments let me know.

the address is unique to your account.
when did you deposit the coins?

It says on the site so if you just deposited them then you may need to wait for the 6 blocks.

I've used britcoin before and had no issues.

looks like this BTC is almost all back here
http://blockexplorer.com/a/GW1A8ReP5

424 242.42424242 BTC at that address

(Is that the answer to everything?)


Is this MtGox's BTC as has previously been claimed? It's been moving around a lot since Gox has been down.
This amount is very similar to the reported ~500000 that crashed the market.

no, all time volume on MtGox is not enough to add up to this.