There are a lot of people building cool new stuff in Bitcoin. Many of these new projects often go unnoticed. We created the Building On Bitcoin series to give these very important individuals an opportunity to tell us what they are up to. The best way for us to grow Bitcoin is to support developers and projects that help build the Bitcoin ecosystem .
Company/Person Name
What product(s) are you building?
TimechainStats.com and BTCLexicon.com - Recently merged to Lopp.net Bitcoin Resources under “Getting Started” and “Network Statistics”
What does it do?
TimechainStats.com is your Bitcoin homepage, a one-stop bookmark for all things Bitcoin… more chain stats and market stats than any other site, and totally free to use… No ads, no sales, no copyright, no company, no altcoins, no user accounts -- just free Bitcoin data dashboards for anyone to use
BTCLexicon is a free Bitcoin glossary of BTC-related terms with a focus on Bitcoin ONLY. No ads, no sales, no company, no altcoins -- just a Bitcoin dictionary of terms I built for everyone to use
Both sites are my own personal projects, I hope you find them useful additions.
Why do you think we need it?
Data yearns to be free! My main goal is to make paid Bitcoin data sites like Glassnode or Coin Listing sites like CoinMarketCap OBSOLETE. There is no reason to charge money or track user accounts for Bitcoin data.
Bitcoin is too important to lock the data behind a paywall. And in the case of websites like CoinMarketCap, how can we trust a coin listing website owned by an exchange (Binance)? Forget the paid sites and backroom listing deals… just use TimechainStats.com… and if you see a term you don’t know… use BTCLexicon.com.
Who is involved?
Ant @2140data
What made you decide to start this project?
When I first came to Bitcoin in early-mid 2017, there were so many different sites for Bitcoin information but they were packed with shitcoin data. At first, my website was just a personal bulletin board, a page where I could keep links and stuff as I was learning. But as I kept moving towards Bitcoin-ONLY, I needed the site to become a platform for important BTC-focused data… I did not trust all these other sites out there, especially once Binance bought CoinMarketCap. I wanted something I could trust. Then, I started seeing all these Glassnode paid channels, and I saw they were charging for things like Wallet Distributions. TimechainStats.com was always just my personal site but I decided to make them obsolete by building out a better platform/set of tools and release it all for free. It’s a work in progress and it has been evolved by audience collaboration and user feedback in recent years. There is a huge underground grassroots love and support for TimechainStats.com, with users from all areas from plebs to CEOs regularly giving me positive feedback for the site. The sites are free, no copyright, and I am the first user. Even if no one else used them, I would still need them. These sites will be here for as long as I am a Bitcoiner, and I use them everyday.
How does this service/product add value to the Bitcoin space?
100% free Bitcoin market and chain metrics dashboard plus glossary of terms with no ads, no user accounts, no sales, no paywalls, no bullshit, no shitcoins, no backroom listing deals, no conflict of interest… just great Bitcoin resources built BY a Bitcoiner FOR the Bitcoiners.
Also, TimechainStats.com was built in a redundant way… There are numerous instances of TCS surviving when other sites fell down… Recently a lot of sites had Bitcoin prices go haywire, showing crazy numbers… even Yahoo Finance was affected… but due to the unique way I call data into TimechainStats, my site stayed true…
Why are you building on Bitcoin versus on a shitcoin or creating your own shitcoin?
LOL Shitcoins are shitcoins
What has been your biggest challenge building on Bitcoin?
Getting my Core commits through… trying to fix the issues in the website and the software UI
Where can people learn more about this?
TimechainStats.com / BTCLexicon.com / @2140data / @TimechainStats
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