Bitcoin mining difficulty retargets every 2016 blocks - will it successfully retarget the block size in 2016?
@drwasho Good luck pulling that off again next year…
@brian_armstrong Bitnodes changed how they count nodes a year or so ago; not sure if Addy can rebuild the data to match current methodology.
Two jumps in P2SH storage in 2015 suggest two entities, each holding over 1% of all bitcoins, moved their stashes. https://t.co/6H1ooZ4AYB
The percentage of bitcoins encumbered by P2SH increased from 5.9% to 9.6% in 2015. Total unique P2SH addresses increased from 55K to 1.98M.
Bulls always outnumber bears on /r/BitcoinMarkets, but bears have nearly gone extinct in 2015. pic.twitter.com/DmlAH45Crk
Average data propagation time to 50% of Bitcoin nodes.
Jan 2015:
Txn: 0.8s
Block: 4s
Dec 2015:
Txn: 0.8s
Block: 8s
Total blockchain size nearly doubled in 2015, growing from 26 GB to 51 GB.
The size of Bitcoin’s unspent output set doubled in 2015 from 16M to 33M outputs, adding a net additional output every 2 seconds.
The value of Bitcoin in terms of market cap (# bitcoins * exchange rate) increased by an average of $65 per second in 2015.
@OnWindowly It’s the difference between dozens (miners) and thousands (all nodes) of servers that need to be upgraded.
Bitcoin network security accelerated at an average rate of 14 GH/s^2 in 2015.
It takes 12 days for an ODROID-C1+ to sync the Bitcoin blockchain to height 390,000.
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