CoinMetrics

• A new face, same vision

  3 weeks ago Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 290

  When we set up Coin Metrics in early 2017, the vision was to create and share methods to extract data from blockchains and other public crypto...

• Evaluating Bitcoin forks with network data

  27-1-2019 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 329

  Determining the success of a UTXO fork is a fraught exercise. There is no agreed-upon standard for measuring adoption. Establishing the existence...

• Granular mining pool mapping with Bitcoin’s coinbase outputs

  7-1-2019 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 275

  How concentrated is block formation in Bitcoin? Which mining pools are dominant, and how long have they held that position? Are major pools in a...

• Don’t trust, verify: A Bitcoin Private case study

  23-12-2018 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 347

  Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is a fork-merge of Bitcoin and ZClassic (ZCL, a fork of ZCash that removed the founders’ reward). BTCP defined its initial...

• Introducing Realized Capitalization

  14-12-2018 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 1322

  The motivation for the creation of Realized Cap was the realization that “Market Capitalization” is often an empty metric when applied...

• What should we expect from Bitcoin’s block size in the coming years?

  22-11-2018 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 482

  tl;dr: under full SegWit adoption you should expect blocks in the 1.6-2 mb range, with larger outliers.  How big will Bitcoin blocks get under...

• Introducing our adjusted transaction volume estimates

  22-10-2018 Bitcoin Technology CoinMetrics 250

  As we have exhaustively covered , getting accurate estimates of the actual economic throughput of public blockchains is not a trivial task. Due...