Bitcoin stats app
This section covers Bitcoin transaction fees: Quandl provides basic statistics on the economics of Bitcoin mining: All of Quandl's Bitcoin price data and market statistics including full historical data is available for free via our unlimited, unrestricted Bitcoin API.
If you prefer, you can download Quandl's Bitcoin data using our free apps for Python, R, Matlab and more. You can also download Bitcoin data directly from within Excel using our free Excel add-in. Bitcoin is a digital currency based on an open-source peer-to-peer software protocol that is independent of any central authority. Bitcoin issuance and transactions are carried out collectively by the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin relies on cryptography to secure and validate transactions, and is thus often referred to as a "cryptocurrency". Bitcoins can be "mined" by users, and also transferred from user to user, directly via computer or smartphone without the need for any intermediary financial institution. Bitcoin transactions are pseudonymous and decentralized. Proponents of Bitcoin argue that it is not susceptible to devaluation by inflation or seigniorage in the way other modern "fiat" currencies are.
Nor is it associated with an arbitrary store of value such as gold, unlike hard-money or representative currencies. The Bitcoin protocol was first described by Satoshi Nakamoto a pseudonym in Each bitcoin is divided into million smaller units called satoshis. MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended.
It was subsequently announced on Bitcoin news that over , Bitcoins had been stolen from customers of this exchange. Quandl provides historical data for MtGox. Launched in August , the service provides data on recent transactions, mined blocks in the bitcoin blockchain , charts on the bitcoin economy, and statistics and resources for developers.
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In May , Blockchain. Transaction volume had exceeded million by August, In September , Blockchain. In January , Blockchain. According to the announcement, the company plans to continue adding services for US-based clients, including Ether and Bitcoin Cash exchanges in coming days.