Various scripts and data used to analyze the Bitcoin blockchain, network, protocol, and economics.

Bitcoin price history

• compress-btc-price-history.py

  • Description: request Bitstamp trading history and process data into averaged daily and weekly price history data sets.
  • download updated trading history
    • source url: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/bitstampUSD.csv.gz
    • unzip bitstampUSD.csv.gz -> bitstampUSD.csv
  • process bitstampUSD.csv
    • spit out average daily/weekly price history -> btcusd-avg-[day/week]-price.csv

• plotPriceChart.m

  • Description: Matlab function that plots above data sets along with exponential fitted curves from three subsets of price data.
    • Note: must manually import .csv files into Matlab tables to feed into function and change daily/weekly title strings
    • Input argument: daily/weekly price array imported from btcusd-avg-price.csv file

Bitcoin transaction and UTXO histories

• compress-oxt-blockchain-history.py

  • Description: compress previously exported blockchain metrics historical data by calculating daily and weekly averages.
  • Note: must manually download metrics .csv data from http://oxt.me
  • Script processes downloaded metric files and spits out daily and weekly averaged stats[METRIC].csv files

• plotBlockchainStats.m

  • Description: Matlab function that plots above data sets along with respective exponential fitted curves.
    • Note: must manually import .csv files into Matlab tables to feed into function and uncomment only relevant title strings
    • Input argument: relevant metric array imported from daily/weekly averaged stats[METRIC].csv files

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