I work as freelance developer and consultant for Bitcoin projects by day and hack on open-source Bitcoin projects by night. I’m primarily interested in Bitcoin and dove deep into data on Bitcoin usage over the years. I run mempool.observer, the Bitcoin Transaction Monitor, and transactionfee.info and have worked on a lot of other projects over the past years.
The Bitcoin Transaction Monitor provides deeper insights into the usage of the Bitcoin network by showing transactions by time and feerate. This post answers frequently asked questions about the Bitcoin Transaction Monitor itself.
To fully understand the rationale behind the current state of Bitcoin development, knowledge about historical events is essential. This blog post highlights selected historical events, software releases and bug fixes before and after Satoshi left the project. It additionally contains a section about the current state of Bitcoin development. The linked timeline provides extra detail for each event.
My search for a list of public Bitcoin feerate estimation APIs ended without any real results. Jameson Lopp has a section on feerate estimators on his bitcoin.page and Antoine Le Calvez’s dashboard txstats.com provides a visualization of different estimation APIs. But that is not what I was looking for. That’s why I compiled this list.
How did the median Bitcoin feerate evolve from 2013 to 2015? When were the feerate spikes in 2017? Visualizing the Bitcoin feerate distribution per block was on my todo list since I’ve started working on the first version of my mempool.observer project in mid-2017. But acquiring the data wasn’t as easy as I first thought.
