It’s the settlement assurances, stupid

Bitcoin Marketcap

$499B

Gold Marketcap

$11.41T

BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)

$12.90B

BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)

1.33%

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KEY MARKETS

24hr change

Bitcoin

$26,407 📈

+$181.94

+0.69%

S&P 500

4,269 📉

-4.01

-0.09%

Gold

$1,876 📉

-$19.81

-1.04%

Silver

$22.56 📉

-$0.23

-1.02%

Euro

$1.0508 📉

-$0.01

-0.62%

Yen

¥149.30 📈

+¥0.24

+0.16%

Renminbi (CNY)

¥7.3054

+¥0.00

+0.00%

Oil (WTI)

$93.56 📈

+$2.19

+2.40%

BITCOIN STATS

Bitcoin Marketcap

$499B

BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)

1.33%

% Supply Issued

90.03%

BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)

$12.90B

Real Exchange Volume (24hr)

$7.98B

Active Addresses

1.02M

Mining Reward Value (24hr)

$24.2M

GBTC Premium

19.73%

MSTR Premium

51.22%

BTC Down From ATH

61.47%

BTC Up From Cycle Low

69.26%

RATES & YIELDS

24hr change

UST 3mo

5.58% 📈

UST 2yr

5.09% 📉

-0.01

-0.2%

UST 10yr

4.55% 📈

+0.11

+2.48%

UST 30yr

4.67% 📈

+0.14

+3.09%

Fed Funds (EFFR)

5.33% 📈

US 10yr Breakeven Inflation

2.34% 📈

+0.01

+0.43%

Real Rate (10yr)

2.22% 📈

+0.15

+7.25%

RATIOS

24hr change

Gold:BTC (marketcap)

22.85x

-0.4

-1.73%

M2:BTC (marketcap)

41.78x

-0.37

-0.88%

BTC:Oil (price)

282.32x

-4.75

-1.65%

Gold:Oil (price)

20.05x

-0.7

-3.36%

US GOVERNMENT STATS

30-day change

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet

$8.02T 📉

-1.41%

M1 Money Supply

$18.32T 📉

-0.69%

M2 Money Supply

$20.87T 📉

-0.18%

BTC ROI

Bitcoin & Traditional Assets ROI (vs USD)

BTC vs Traditional Assets ROI:

Bitcoin

Gold

S&P 500

1 year:

+36%

+14%

+18%

2 year:

-36%

+8%

-2%

3 year:

+146%

-1.00%

+28%

4 year:

+224%

+26%

+44%

5 year:

+301%

+57%

+46%

6 year:

+534%

+46%

+69%

7 year:

+4,277%

+42%

+97%

8 year:

+11,053%

+67%

+124%

9 year:

+6,818%

+55%

+118%

10 year:

+20,755%

+44%

+153%

11 year:

+213,580%

+5%

+196%

12 year:

+518,033%

+16%

+283%

13 year:

+43 million%

+43%

+273%

14 year:

+3.5 billion%

+87%

+315%

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Data Source: Messari.io, bitcoincharts.com

What is it: This shows bitcoin's ROI vs other potential inflation hedge assets.

Why it matters: As with the historical bitcoin price table, we see bitcoin's extreme outperformance vs other assets here as well. Bitcoin's relatively small size, plus fundamental properties, yield extreme outperformance when even relatively small funds-flows find their way to BTC.

BTC DAYS ABOVE PRICE

Bitcoin Price Closing History by Level

Days Bitcoin Closed Above:

Price

Days Above

% of Bitcoin's Life

$40,000

327

6.08%

$30,000

526

9.78%

$26,407

640

11.90%

$20,000

813

15.11%

$10,000

1229

22.84%

Data Sources: Messari.io, bitcoincharts.com

What is it: This the number of days in which bitcoin "closed" (trading level at midnight UTC) above various price levels.

Why it matters: This can give a sense of where bitcoin is currently trading relative to past cycles.

SHARPE 5yr

DOUBLING TIME

THE BITCOIN LIBRARY

22 Jul 2019 | Nic Carter | Price when published: $10,455 (ROI since: +153%)

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EXCERPT

I tend to believe that the interesting thing about Bitcoin is its capacity to facilitate the transfer of value through a communications medium with extremely strong assurances. I think that Bitcoin is a novel institutional technology — high-assurance wealth storage and transfer without reliance on the State or a financial system — which will unlock new modes of human organization and will enable productive commerce in places where property rights are poorly enforced.

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