Absurd data differences; which data to trust?

[Vandroiy]

«16:23:38» {gribble} There are currently 44174.357 bitcoins demanded at or over 5.0 USD, worth 228372.191755 USD in total.
«16:23:39» {gribble} There are currently 17898.522 bitcoins offered at or under 6.0 USD, worth 105629.639499 USD in total.

btccharts.com shows completely different data though. Over 58k bids and over 34k asks. Clark Moody keeps drifting upward, it changes the accumulated orders when I refresh, and is somewhere in between otherwise...

Which sources are most reliable in such situations?

My impression is that btccharts and Clark Moody are generally not to be trusted when there's a lot of activity, and gribble usually gives credible data. But I can't know for certain, can I?

Edit: clark Moody seems to be in sync with gribble now if I refresh often enough. So I guess gribble was right again. Btccharts shows something different entirely.

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[bzzard]

btccharts.com is on servers at UK so there's no new data since 2 hours (Euro blackout)

[muyuu]

btccharts.com is on servers at UK so there's no new data since 2 hours (Euro blackout)

Assuming they get their data from MtGox that's correct. Other exchanges work in Europe just fine, though.

[Mushoz]

btccharts.com is on servers at UK so there's no new data since 2 hours (Euro blackout)

Assuming they get their data from MtGox that's correct. Other exchanges work in Europe just fine, though.

We're talking about Mtgox market depth...

[RyNinDaCleM]

I find that CM isn't too bad if you refresh once in a while, and the list is updating. BTCCharts has a few bugs, even when it's working right.

I use CM and GoxLive for orders/depth. If one goes down (usually the API/socket.io, so both), I start checking others, but I usually just pull my orders until the stink clears.

[bzzard]

BTCCharts has a few bugs, even when it's working right.

Can you describe those bugs?

[M4v3R]

Related question - how do you ask gribble to get this?

[Vandroiy]

Related question - how do you ask gribble to get this?

;;bids number
;;asks number

Where number is a USD/BTC value in US formatting (e.g. 5.4). It will give the cumulative depth in BTC and USD.

Works in query and #Bitcoin channel.

[M4v3R]

Thanks, I was looking for this some time go

[jojo69]

"Gribble?"

new one on me...link?

[pirateat40]

You guys leave gribble alone... he is a nice boy with a bright future.

[M4v3R]

"Gribble?"

new one on me...link?

It's an IRC bot on #bitcoin-otc channel on Freenode.

[bzzard]

Depth @  Wed Feb 8 16:20:25 GMT+0100 2012
http://btccharts.com/misc/depth1311650865/index.html
Gribble is correct. But mine charts also.
I'm often checking btccharts vs mtgoxlive and it's always the same. Just check out now

Anyway there should be some indicator that data is ...outdated - I will work on this.
For now you can just check last trade time.