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Bitcoin Days Destroyed is a measure of the transaction volume of Bitcoin. <ref>[http:// | Bitcoin Days Destroyed is a measure of the transaction volume of Bitcoin. <ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6172.msg90789#msg90789 ByteCoin's Proposal to use Bitcoin Days Destroyed as a measure of transaction volume]</ref> A bounty for a script to compute the Bitcoin Days Destroyed by the transactions in a block has been awarded. <ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9300.0 Bounty Award to develop a script to compute the BitcoinDays Destroyed by the transactions in a block.]</ref> [[Abe]] is a [[block chain browser]] that computes this statistic in real-time. | ||
==Calculation== | ==Calculation== | ||
Bitcoin days destroyed for any given transaction are calculated by taking the number of Bitcoins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spent. | |||
===Example=== | ===Example=== | ||
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If someone has 100BTC that they received a week ago and they spend it then 700 bitcoin days have been destroyed. If they take those 100BTC and send them to several addresses and then spend them then although the total transaction volume could be arbitrarily large the number of bitcoindays destroyed is still 700. | If someone has 100BTC that they received a week ago and they spend it then 700 bitcoin days have been destroyed. If they take those 100BTC and send them to several addresses and then spend them then although the total transaction volume could be arbitrarily large the number of bitcoindays destroyed is still 700. | ||
==Graph of Bitcoin Days Destroyed== | ==Graph of Percentage of Bitcoin Days Destroyed== | ||
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Percentage of Bitcoin Days destroyed vs block number, as of June 17th, 2011. | |||
[[File:June-17th-days-destroyed.png]] | |||
==See Also== | |||
* [[Abe]] Alternate Block Explorer | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 08:57, 26 September 2022
Bitcoin Days Destroyed is a measure of the transaction volume of Bitcoin. [1] A bounty for a script to compute the Bitcoin Days Destroyed by the transactions in a block has been awarded. [2] Abe is a block chain browser that computes this statistic in real-time.
Calculation
Bitcoin days destroyed for any given transaction are calculated by taking the number of Bitcoins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spent.
Example
If someone has 100BTC that they received a week ago and they spend it then 700 bitcoin days have been destroyed. If they take those 100BTC and send them to several addresses and then spend them then although the total transaction volume could be arbitrarily large the number of bitcoindays destroyed is still 700.
Graph of Percentage of Bitcoin Days Destroyed
Percentage of Bitcoin Days destroyed vs block number, as of June 17th, 2011.
See Also
- Abe Alternate Block Explorer