Topic: Researching Bitcoin for a Presentation - coming here to fact check - page 2. (Read 272 times)
March 14, 2023, 02:43:39 AM
What exactly are the points which you intend to cover in your presentation? The resources you linked point to different categories of data, so without an understanding of what you are trying to present, it's going to be difficult for us to give you any recommendations.
March 14, 2023, 12:09:54 AM
are any of these particularly good or bad in your opinion?
It depends on the data you want to fetch and then use in your presentation and how accurate you want your information to be. For example something like "number of blocks per day" is very hard to miscalculate while "block size" even though it is a very simple "data" it is apparently something these online data sources (like bitinfocharts that was mentioned) easily miscalculate as I recently found out and pointed out here. Or glassnode that reports some of its so called "analysis" based on news not hard data acquired from research and blockchain analysis, such as their reports on "hashrate per country" which is very inaccurate.
Another problem is the bias some of these tools sometimes have. For example if you check out reports by a blockchain analysis company working to deanonymize bitcoin, you can see their reports are always biased towards convincing the reader that bitcoin is used for illegal activities and they can track everything.
Apart from bias we also have maliciousness. For example there are malicious websites reporting extremely high fee rates as an attack on bitcoin trying to inflate it. Or there are altcoin centered websites (like bcash sites including bitcoin.com) that are known for providing misinformation.
March 13, 2023, 08:04:01 PM
I am doing research for a Bitcoin presentation
My first question is around data sources. I plan on reviewing Glassnode, Messari, Coinmetrics and theblock.co... are any of these particularly good or bad in your opinion?
Is there another data source you would recommend?
Depends on your objectives for your presentation which I don't know now as you did not describe so far.My first question is around data sources. I plan on reviewing Glassnode, Messari, Coinmetrics and theblock.co... are any of these particularly good or bad in your opinion?
Is there another data source you would recommend?
One of most comprehensive source you can use is The bullish case for Bitcoin and it has a book on Amazon too.
Those sites you listed are for on-chain data but I believe it is better if you focus on basics first. On-chain data is not fundamental and not for beginners. It is for an advanced level of course that does not match for newbies.
https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/ is a great site for on-chain charts.
March 13, 2023, 06:21:22 PM
Hi there!
I am doing research for a Bitcoin presentation. I was hoping I could tap the community here to double check the data I come across.
My first question is around data sources. I plan on reviewing Glassnode, Messari, Coinmetrics and theblock.co... are any of these particularly good or bad in your opinion?
Is there another data source you would recommend?
Thank you so much!
I have also been pointed in the direction of https://bitinfocharts.com/, https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning and https://cryptofees.info/.
If you know of any of these being particularly good or bad in terms of data quality I would appreciate the heads up. Thanks!
I am doing research for a Bitcoin presentation. I was hoping I could tap the community here to double check the data I come across.
My first question is around data sources. I plan on reviewing Glassnode, Messari, Coinmetrics and theblock.co... are any of these particularly good or bad in your opinion?
Is there another data source you would recommend?
Thank you so much!
I have also been pointed in the direction of https://bitinfocharts.com/, https://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightning and https://cryptofees.info/.
If you know of any of these being particularly good or bad in terms of data quality I would appreciate the heads up. Thanks!
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