Bitcoin (bit coin) Analyzes the trend in the first half of 2015

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Operation commenced in 2009Virtual currency on the Internet "Bitcoin(Bitcoin) "image was down due to bankruptcy in the world's largest exchange Mt.Gox (Mounting Gox) boasting more than 70% of bit-coin transactions world wide, but Microsoft and Rakuten Group Has responded to payment in part and gradually recovered confidence and entered 2015. About half a year has passed since the beginning of 2015, in July, Web services that manage Wallet on behalf of usersCoinbaseBitcoin (bit coin) We are publishing a report on the trend in the first half of 2015.

Bitcoin Trends In The First Half Of 2015
https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/07/15/bitcoin-trends-in-1h-2015/

The graph below shows the bit exchange rate against the dollar between January 2011 and July 2015. Although it did not fluctuate greatly until about July 2013, in January 2014 it suddenly became 1000 The dollar (about 100,000 yen at that rate) surpassed. Suddenly descending by July 2014 half a year later it slightly climbed and recorded about 650 dollars (about 80,000 yen). Then it fell to about 300 dollars (about 37,000 yen) in January 2015. However, it does not rise sharply in the first half of 2015, and has settled to 288 dollars (about 36,000 yen) as of July 13, 2015. According to Coinbase, the exchange rate of the bit coin in the first half of 2015 has entered a stable period.


Represents the rate of change of the exchange ratePrice variation rateThe change is as follows. In January 2011, it was about 150%, it gradually declined from there and recorded 50% around March 2013. After that, it will rise to around 150% in January 2014, but it is about 60% in January 2015, beginning to fall again. However, in the first half of 2015, the price fluctuation rate has not seen a big change, it is 58% as of July 2015. The price fluctuation rate of the US dollar / yen every year from 1995 to 2015 isFrom hereIt is checkable, and the average fluctuation rate in 21 years is about 17%.


The graph below shows a graph of the bit coin trading volume per day. From the latter half of 2011 to the year 2015, you can see that the volume of transactions is steadily increasing, but the volume of transactions has nearly doubled since April 2015. The average daily trading volume in June 2015 is 117,474 bit coins, which is about 4.2 billion yen by calculation of 1 bit coin 288 dollars.


Coinbase corresponds to Wallet of more than 190 countries, and users who are actually buying and selling on the service are from 25 countries, and the number of users using bit coin is increasing year by year. Of the countries and regions with more than 1000 bit coin users, Hong Kong has the most number of users in the first half of 2015. Compared to the end of fiscal 2014, the rate of increase is 283%, overwhelming other countries. Next to Hong Kong, the rate of increase was 154% in Tanzania. After that, the Philippines, Romania and Algeria will be followed by approximately 100% side by side.


The following pie chart shows the ratio by age of all users in Coinbase. The most common is between 25 and 35 years old, 37.78%. The second largest number is between 15 and 25, 28.47%. On the contrary, there were only 0.49% of users over 75 years old.


Bitcoin related in GitHubRepositoryContinues to increase year by year, 6109 cases as of June 30, 2015. Online payment service Considering that there are 2318 repositories of PayPal, it seems that bit coins are quite large.


The above is the trend of Bitcoin (bit coin) in the first half of 2015, but there were also many news about bit coins in the half a year, and I picked up items with high attention among them.

◆ An implementation plan approving the payment of taxes and fees by bit coin in February 2015 in the state of New Hampshire in the United States appeared. Finally, there is the possibility of entering an era in which taxes can be paid with bit coins.

Bill Text: NH HB 552 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced | LegiScan
https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB552/2015


◆ The Department of Justice in the United States offered illegal drugs and stolen credit card information such as the purchase and sale of dark sitesSilk roadTwo prosecutors who were investigating infiltration were prosecuted on March 30, 2015 due to charges of unauthorized remittance and money washing. A former investigator, Karl Force, one of the prosecuted officials, said he had moved a bit coin equivalent to approximately $ 700,000 (about 86 million yen) to his personal account via Mount Gox, in the same year It was decided that 20 years imprisonment would be imposed on the month.

Silk Road: Undercover agent admits stealing Bitcoin - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33364349


◆ Online payment serviceStripeIt corresponds to bit coin settlement. On May 19, 2015, Stripe is planning to develop in JapanOpen Japanese pageWhen Stripe starts service in Japan, there is a possibility that bit coin settlement can be easily used from Japan.

Stripe: Bitcoin
https://stripe.com/bitcoin


◆ Coinbase announced Bitcoin's instant payment service in June 2015. In ordinary settlement, when exchanging bit coins for cash, due to the fluctuation in the exchange rateExchange lossHowever, instant settlement of Coinbase is settled at the rate of the day and cash is transferred on the same day and it is expected as a service which will not be influenced by turbulence.

Coinbase Launches Instant Exchange
https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/06/17/instant-exchange/


◆ Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a website that will be a white paper of "Enigma" distributed cloud computing technology that has been strongly influenced by bit coins on June 30, 2015. By adding cryptographic data to elements such as share and public data existing on the bit coin's shared network, it is possible to protect the storage, share and analysis of personal information with high security and solve all the privacy concerns related to the Internet It attracts attention as technology.

Enigma
http://enigma.media.mit.edu/


◆ Seven Bank and FX Prime by GMO send a large amount of data and stop the serverDDoSIt was discovered on 13th July 2015 that it was under attack. It seems that Seven Bank has requested payment with bit coin as a condition to stop attack. Both companies have said that there is no "leakage" of personal information and data corruption due to attacks.

Two companies including Seven Bank temporarily hit cyber attack service: Asahi Shimbun Digital
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASH7F644PH7FULFA023.html