fiatleak.com - realtime trades into BTC per currency

[Wipeout2097]

fiatleak - watch the world's currencies flow into BTC in realtime

When one of the fiat currencies listed below is used to purchase BTC on any of the bitcoin markets (MT.GOX, BITSTAMP, BTCChina, Bit2c) a bitcoin is sent from the currency counter in red to the country on the map. The total BTC value is listed in green and plotted across the map.

http://fiatleak.com/

[mindfulmojo]

That is so cool to watch... 

Zerohedge wrote an article on it if anyone wants to read it:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-11/meet-fiatleakcom-%E2%80%93-real-time-map-bitcoin-transactions-country

[lakeluke]

As usual it seems Strong Money is moving from West to East; monitoring this revealed most of the BTC was being purchased by the Chinese.

[mindfulmojo]

If you leave it open long enough you see quite a bit a being bought by the US...

Definitely outpaced by China though... 

[freebird]

This is really cool! But I wonder why they didn't include BTC-E? It's one of the biggest exchanges, and it would probably show a lot of European activity, since it's based in Russia.

[jaysone]

Really cool to watch.  Nice post.

[pysiak]

Cool, indeed! Would be better if it showed also the movement from BTC to Fiat.
And ultimately the net result!

[pysiak]

Just realized something.. Isn't this zero-sum?

Transactions are 2-legged: every buy is a sell. Every BTC is at the same bought and sold.
The buyer buys BTC and sells fiat.
The seller sells BTC and buys fiat.

[Wipeout2097]

Just realized something.. Isn't this zero-sum?

Transactions are 2-legged: every buy is a sell. Every BTC is at the same bought and sold.
The buyer buys BTC and sells fiat.
The seller sells BTC and buys fiat.

Indeed. Don't take the website for more than it is

Also someone said Chinese buy more than the U.S. ... Well I guess it depends on what time it is.