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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<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4200.msg62590#msg62590 Re: Number of nodes - graph]</ref>.
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<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4200.msg62590#msg62590 Re: Number of nodes - graph]</ref>.
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==
==External Links==

Revision as of 22:16, 8 March 2011

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

References