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Crypto twitter has become saturated with automated scam and spam bots over the past two years. The majority of these “bad” bots stemmed from the rise in Ethereum ICO popularity in mid 2017. The team at Duo Security published an excellent report on the anatomy and scale of these of bots. While Twitter has been working on this problem, as many as 15,000 bots have been found in the August 2018 report. To add to this mess, crypto twitter is flooded with fake accounts ran by bots pushing referral and phishing links as well as automated engagement (see XRP).
Through all this noise, a few developers have created some fantastic automated bots that publish data on wallet movement, block activity, market alerts, network statistics, and more. These bots may be useful for analysts, traders, and students looking to keep up with the rapid cryptoasset market space. For example, a bot that crawls blockchain data is able to flag large transactions from wallets to exchanges, signaling a potential action.
The bots are grouped into the following categories: blockchain data, market data, and Bitcoin.
Blockchain Data
The following two bots crawl blockchains and flag large movements on the networks.
Whale Alert: The Whale Alert bot crawls blockchain explorers and tracks large transaction activity across various networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, EOS. It also provides stable coin activity including alerts when large amounts of coins are minted. Created by IamNomad.
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1,200,000 #EOS (3,539,002 USD) transferred from Unknown wallet to #Binance Tx: https://t.co/zAZcNMt8ct
A lot of activity on the Ripple network today…
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 749,999,979 #XRP (261,380,701 USD) transferred from Ripple OTC Distribution wallet to Unknown wallet Tx: https://t.co/iwtpyoQsxv
BTC block bot: The BTC block bot tracks large movements on the Bitcoin blockchain. Data is sourced from blockchain.com.
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Whale alert! 🐋 Someone moved 9,130 BTC ($38M) in block 551,875 https://t.co/ZvA6fwiVuG
Market Data
The following bots provide data on market activity including price alerts, sentiment data, and contract liquidations.
Bitcoin Total Bot: A simple bot that regularly tweets the price of Bitcoin + Bitcoin Cash ABC. Created by armor123123.
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Current Bitcoin Price = $4199.85 --- Includes Sum of Forks, Core $4019.00 + Cash $180.85 (0.0450 BTC)
Bitmex Bots: Bitmex Rekt is a bot that tracks large liquidations on Bitmex. Bitmex Whale, created by cryptopolis, tracks XBTUSD single market orders with a minimum of 3,000,000 contracts.
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Liquidated short on XBTUSD: Buy 1,069,067 @ 3769.5 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥⚡ ~ Ultra kill ~ McDonalds is hiring
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⬇️ [08:18:27 UTC] BitMEX XBTUSD 6,543,718 contracts market sold at 4,429.7 with 1.3 slippage
Mayer Multiple: A bot that tweets the daily mayer multiple (200 MA / BTCUSD). Created by Trace Mayer.
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Nov 27, 2018: The current Mayer Multiple is 0.55 with a $BTC price of $USD 3,711.14 and a 200 day moving average of $6,702.19 USD. The @TIPMayerMultple has historically been higher 96.64% of the time with an average of 1.51. Learn more at: https://t.co/9n0xlTWuNP
Coin Watcher Bot: A bot that tracks daily price movements from the top 100 coins on CoinMarketCap. Created bu Bruno Vieira.
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Worst returns (24h): 1. Bitcoin SV -15.2% $BSV 2. ODEM -12.8% $ODE 3. @factom -9.4% $FCT #blockchain #altcoins
Lightning Signals: This bot tracks social sentiment data on twitter. Along with hourly summaries, the bot tweets alerts when a specific asset spikes in sentiment levels.
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20:00] Most mentioned tickers in the last 4 hours: $BTC $ETH $ONION $XRP $TRX $NXS $NIO $BAT $LTC $GLD
Additional: Whale calls, Whale calls alts, 1satoshibot, cryptostatsbot, Ubiq ANN bot
Bitcoin
These bots are great for those looking for Bitcoin focused data and discussions.
BTC block bot: This bot is worth mentioning twice, a simple bot that tweets whale size transaction alerts. The fee for the $253M transaction below was $4.17.
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Whale alert! 🐋 Someone moved 66,233 BTC ($253M) in block 552,421 https://t.co/20Of1w0Czr
A nice touch with the difficulty adjustment alert.
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The 275th Bitcoin mining period has started with block 552,384. ⛏ New difficulty: 5,646,403,851,534 (-15.13%)
Bitcoin Experts: Created by Kyle Torpey, a bot that tracks when Bitcoin and Lightning network experts (mostly developers) post on reddit.
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u/luke-jr: Pseudonymous is not short for "pseudo anonymous" https://t.co/dVw4aEBLNy
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u/roasbeef: Lightning Labs - Lightning App Security & Architecture https://t.co/gdF80GVCVk
Big Blockers: A simple bot that tracks the price of Bitcoin + Bitcoin ABC in USD and BTC values.
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The current price of Bitcoin is $4283.35222596. The current price of BCash is $180.720877249, or 0.04214882 BTC
It also follows twitter activity from notable large block proponents
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rogerkver has unfollowed @ProfFaustus. SAD!
Bitcoin Block Notifier: A bot that tweets every time a new block has been mined. The data is sourced from Blockchain.com
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551.754 ]=- Txs: 2.468 Size: 1.15 MB Stripped: 0.89 MB Time: 1543359165 Reward: 12.5 BTC Fees: 0.29895529 BTC Miner: BTCcom Mempool: 727 txs
Core Fee Helper: This bot tweets fee (sat/byte) details on the Bitcoin blockchain. At a glance, this bot provides a summary of the current state of fees on the network.
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Next block fee: 39.8 sat/byte Hour fee: 24.5 sat/byte Day fee: 1.0 sat/byte Half-week fee: 1.0 sat/byte Week fee: 1.0 sat/byte Block height: 551755
Bitcoin Merges: Created by Pierre Rochard, a bot that tracks pull requests that are merged into the Bitcoin reference implementation.
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Merged PR from JeremyRubin: Add Benchmark to test input de-duplication worst case https://t.co/YdevubiZGa
Nakamoto Quotes: My personal favorite, the NakamotoQuotes bot tweets quotes from Satoshi Nakamoto. The Satoshi quotes are sourced from the white paper and the Nakamoto Institute quotes library.
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I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper.
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Sorry to be a wet blanket. Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.
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The marginal cost of gold mining tends to stay near the price of gold. Gold mining is a waste, but that waste is far less than the utility of having gold available as a medium of exchange. I think the case will be the same for Bitcoin.
BTC Reddit: The Bitcoin reddit bot tweets popular discussions from r/Bitcoin. Unfortunately, crypto reddit has been spammed with useless posts but this bot can be helpful catching the occasional Bitcoin announcements and network developments.
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CoinShares research shows at least 78% of Bitcoin mining uses renewable energy! making Bitcoin mining greener than almost every other large-scale industry in the world. https://t.co/0jkvh8QI7F
For those interested in subscribing to a Twitter list: Matt Odell has curated a Bitcoin Bot list.
Ping me on twitter @blockchainjoy if you have a bot to add to the post.
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