Bitcoin Exchange Trading Volumes Hit All-Time High
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There are currently 17, Bitcoins in circulation, andBitcoin users unique addresses. Since Bitcoin's inception inthere have been a total of , Bitcoin transactions. All Bitcoin datasets include daily historical data that you can download, graph, embed or access via our free Bitcoin API.
Just click on any Bitcoin statistic or graph to see the entire data history as a time series. End of day price quotes are usually updated daily at 6: Quandl provides weighted average end-of-day price quotes and volumes for Bitcoin versus many other currencies:.
Bitcoin trade volume index provides several measures of the size and value of the Bitcoin market, including the total number of Bitcoins in circulation, the market capitalization of Bitcoin, and the number of unique Bitcoin addresses in use. This section covers Bitcoin transaction activity data: 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.
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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 bitcoin trade volume index 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 trade volume index 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 overBitcoins had been stolen from customers of this exchange.
Quandl provides bitcoin trade volume index data for MtGox. Note that this data stopped updating on 25 Feb Quandl has daily prices for over crypto-currencies from Cryptocoin Charts. You can view all Quandl's cryptocurrency time series on our Cryptocoin Charts source page. Dogecoin data, from Dogecoin Average, is available from our Dogecoin Average source.
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JSONCSV Bitcoin Market Size Quandl provides several measures of the size and value of the Bitcoin market, including the total number of Bitcoins in circulation, the market capitalization of Bitcoin, and the number of unique Bitcoin addresses in use.
More About Bitcoin Currency Bitcoin is a digital currency based on an open-source bitcoin trade volume index software protocol that is independent of any central authority. Bitcoin Data from MtGox MtGox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, until February when the site shut down and trading was suspended.
