Bitcoin Market Charts, Data & Tools
The much anticipated block size increase of 2X on the main Bitcoin chain has been formally cancelled, calling off the fork just one week before it was set to activate. Yesterday there was a lot of commotion in the Bitcoin space as the SegWit2X fork which caused a lot of hype prior to yesterday was …
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In just 10 days Bitcoin will be forking based on the SegWit2X code scheduled for block height 494784 which is estimated to happen on November 16, 2017 (at the time of this writing). The time may vary slightly based on block interval times not being precisely 10 mins each time they are found. According to …
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Bitcoin which briefly topped $5000 just a couple of weeks ago has dropped in price, but the amount it’s dropped by and why has people concerned. At the time of this writing, the price of Bitcoin is sitting around $3500, and could possibly drop some more as the news of China putting forth regulations are impacting …
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Bitcoin is experiencing exponential growth, reaching a new all time high in the history of the digital currency. On a few Bitcoin exchanges, the price topped $5000 USD per unit (per bitcoin). As pictured in the price chart below, you can see the extreme price spike as Bitcoin has topped $5000 on the exchanges OKCoin, LakeBTC, The …
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News today is breaking that the admin for the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e has been arrested for money laundering. Things started yesterday when BTC-e took down the entire exchange saying the site is under unplanned maintenance, as pictured below. Shortly after people on Twitter began to further speculate something was wrong, when tweets starting showing up about 66,163 …
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Bitcoin is starting break new records again. This morning Bitcoin surged beyond the $1 billion marker for total amount traded in U.S. dollars. As visualized in the chart below, from the start of the month of July total Bitcoin trades (all buys and sells across all major exchanges) has been in the range of $200-$400 …
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Anyone that has followed Bitcoin over the years knows that price volatility is guaranteed. But as the summer months of Bitcoin typically cool down, this summer is different as things are heating up causing huge fluctuations. Going back two years ago to former Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn’s blog post, he explains how Bitcoin is cyclical where …
We launched a new live Bitcoin chart recently which aims to capture Bitcoin network activity over the last 24-hours. From our Bitcoin Network Stats landing page, you can see a myriad of Bitcoin network statistics and activity such as the Bitcoin market price, market cap, miner info, transactions, trading volume, and more. With our new …
In the early part of February of this year, Chinese Bitcoin exchanges were forced to stop withdrawals as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) wanted to inspect them for regulatory compliance. Four months later three big Chinese Bitcoin exchanges have now resumed trading. The announcement came from a correspondent on Twitter who said Chinese exchange …
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Bitcoin reached yet another all time high yesterday, with some exchanges reporting prices as high as $3000 USD at the peak. Yesterday was a huge day for crypto, specifically Bitcoin. Yesterday late morning we tweeted that on the Bitcoin exchange CEX.IO it achieved the momentous high price of $3000. Other exchanges followed closely behind, with …
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