Bitcoin Marketcap
$2.17T
Gold Marketcap
$23.83T
BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)
$12.90B
BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)
1.17%
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SEARCHKEY MARKETS
24hr change
BITCOIN STATS
Bitcoin Marketcap
$2.17T
BTC Inflation Rate (next 1yr)
1.17%
% Supply Issued
90.03%
BTC Settlement Volume (24hr)
$12.90B
Real Exchange Volume (24hr)
$28.92B
Active Addresses
1.02M
Mining Reward Value (24hr)
$105M
GBTC Premium
200.86%
MSTR Premium
-80.49%
BTC Down From ATH
9.28%
BTC Up From Cycle Low
10.59%
RATES & YIELDS
24hr change
RATIOS
24hr change
Gold:BTC (marketcap)
10.99x
-0.31
-2.78%
M2:BTC (marketcap)
10.23x
+0.04
+0.39%
BTC:Oil (price)
1,896x
+22.31
+1.19%
Gold:Oil (price)
64.84x
-0.92
-1.4%
US GOVERNMENT STATS
30-day change
BTC ROI
Bitcoin & Traditional Assets ROI (vs USD)
BTC vs Traditional Assets ROI:
Bitcoin
Gold
S&P 500
1 year:
+61%
+43%
+18%
2 year:
+231%
+96%
+65%
3 year:
+492%
+138%
+77%
4 year:
+84%
+120%
+49%
5 year:
+749%
+109%
+109%
6 year:
+1,149%
+163%
+125%
7 year:
+1,720%
+221%
+158%
8 year:
+1,719%
+207%
+166%
9 year:
+16,146%
+207%
+222%
10 year:
+35,842%
+243%
+229%
11 year:
+34,427%
+231%
+241%
12 year:
+56,178%
+194%
+290%
13 year:
+1.1 million%
+128%
+386%
14 year:
+3.6 million%
+127%
+458%
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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
$114,614
41
0.67%
$100,000
113
1.84%
$75,000
254
4.14%
$50,000
659
10.73%
$25,000
1367
22.26%
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
15 Nov 2012 | | Price when published: $11.09 (ROI since: +1,033,154%)
The Gloom of Central Banking
Filed under: 
fundamentals 
reports
Topics include:
- Understanding central banker psychology
- The original function of central banking
- Defending the monopoly of fiat money
- Institutionalizing fractional reserve banking
- Institutionalizing seigniorage
- What keeps a central banker up at night
- Early reaction to online competition (1996)
- Current CB reaction to online competition (2012)
- What they are up against now (2): radically different solutions
- Bitcoin is not backed by fiat money or by physical commodities
- Clearing of bitcoins happens decentralized in a P2P network
- Bitcoin can operate independently from the banking system
- Bitcoin clearing is ultra fast and cheap
- Money supply is automatically limited by the Bitcoin protocol
- Complete discretion is possible
- De facto international, allowing for even more discretion
- What is the real currency war?
EXCERPT
With central banks around the globe well on the way of printing at least the present-day fiat currencies into oblivion, investors and fund managers likely do themselves a favor by keeping an eye on what is going on in the dynamic universe of decentralised cryptocurrency, where—at least for the moment—Bitcoin is the most prominent game in town.
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