PoW Bitcoin: "Everything is Going According to Plan" - 11/26/2017

Bitcoin & Markets Update 11/26/17 --- 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 --- 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 --- This is not investment advice people, do your own research, I say some crazy stuff on this show, it could all be psuedoscience. ---- Recent chart tweet: https://twitter.com/btcmrkts/status/934753783397040128 Prices Bitstamp - $8902 The Finney: $0.89 Loose bitcoin price (including forks): $10,953 3M Futures - $8897 spread 0 Spread was negative and shifted positive, bitstamp vs okex 3M, perfectly as the market turned up, no even CME still "second week of Dec" no official date. Market Cap - $150B! Global MC - $284B Maximalist Price - $17,054 Avg on chain tx value - $7035 BTC $ val tx'ed on chain (24h): $2.4B Difficulty: -8%, 7.9% or 4.4% - I estimate about 5-10% increase https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty http://fork.lol/pow/retarget https://cryptothis.com/diff/ Mempool: 5MB https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/ https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#2h OTC Localbitcoins: $63.3M/wk Paxful: $9.7M/wk LedgerX: $2.6M to $6M/wk to $2.1M this wk, Holiday http://data.ledgerx.com/ Total public OTC data: $79M to $75M/wk I'll update this on my twitter when new weekly numbers drop soon. --- Ethereum and Parity Funds are still stuck. Debate rages. https://www.coindesk.com/brain-freeze-parity-bug-continues-no-easy-solution-sight/ Bcash It's has failed to rally as hard as last holiday weekend. Bithumb volume down. Their DAA has performed better than I expected. Tether Of course, tether is centralized, but it can be replaced, Other exchanges bank accounts are more at risk and could cause more damage that tether Mining https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-developer-about-take-mining-hardware-industry/ This is an important play. The Core devs are so far out in front that they started planning for bitcoin's privacy upgrades months ago. To ease a privacy upgrade, decentralized mining is paramount. --- Thank you bitcoin. Music by Joakim Karud and Die Antwoort