"Fundamentals and Maximalism" - Bitcoin and Markets - 12/13/2017

Bitcoin & Markets Update 12/13/17 --- Looking for more info about bitcoin? http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/resources --- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $2-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets or to donate bitcoin, litecoin or paypal http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/donate --- Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, do your own research, this is all psuedoscience. ---- PRICES Bitstamp: $16,558 1 finney: $1.65 Mayer Multiple: $4938 = 3.3, (blowoff tops happen around 7) 3M Futures: $17450 - New contract in 1 day spread: + $900 MARKET SIZE and METRICS Market Cap: $284 B Global MC: $498 B Maximalist Price: $29,746 Avg on-chain tx value: $15,443 BTC dollar value tx'ed on-chain (24h): $5.7 B NETWORK STATS Difficulty: est 13% in 5 days http://fork.lol/pow/retarget - New stats and look, I like it. https://cryptothis.com/diff/ Mempool: 28MB - This is about the perfect size https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/ https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#3m OTC VOLUME Localbitcoins: $97.0M/wk Paxful: $7.5M/wk LedgerX: $6.5M/wk http://data.ledgerx.com/ Total public OTC data: $111.0M - $101M/wk last PSA: Centralized exchanges are invasive, slow and outside your control. Check out p2p exchanges like https://bisq.network/ (hit $222k in volume!) --- Govcoin can't be a thing. It's less efficient than what they have now. Cboe futures prices and maturities http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures The Cold Card by Coinkite http://blog.opendime.com/coldcard-annoucement/ --- Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts --- We're on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWJc6ZVFJDjI6eh7MU68Tg --- Thank you bitcoin. We are all Satoshi. Run a Full Node. Music by Joakim Karud and Kontekst