Bitcoin Economy
Bitcoin Economy is a micro blog which provides a daily snapshot of the Bitcoin Economy.
The tweet currently is formatted as follows:
1 BTC = $?.?? USD, Size: ?.??M BTC, Last 24h: ?.??M BTC in ?.?K trx, Difficulty: ??.?K, Forum posts/day: ???, Nodes: ?.?K, #bitcoin
Each piece of data and the underlying source is described in the following table:
| 1 BTC = $?.?? USD | Previous 24h weighted average BTC/USD obtained from MtGox Matrix |
| Size: ?.??M | Total currency issued obtained from Total size metric on Bitcoin Watch |
| Lat 24h: ?.??M BTC in ?.?K trx | Bitcoins sent and Transactions last 24h from Bitcoin Watch. |
| Difficulty | Difficulty rating from Bitcoin Watch. |
| Forum posts/day: ??? | New posts per day statistic from "Forum Histroy" data in Bitcoin.org forum's Statistics Center |
| Nodes: ?.?K | Active ("up") nodes as reported by btcStats |
| #bitcoin | Twitter hashtag - for traffic generation. |
History
2011-03-08 The metric reported for Nodes changed from being total nodes to only "up" nodes, after address spam made the total an unreliable metric[1].
2011-02-05 The metric Forum posts/day was changed from being average per-day to New posts per-day (prev 24h period).
External Links
- Twitter: @BitcoinEconomy