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About Bitcoin Data Guide

Bitcoin Data Guide is an independent reference publication about Bitcoin: its price history, its issuance schedule, its market cycles and the protocol mechanics that sit underneath all three. This page explains what the site is, who publishes it, and the editorial position it takes.

What this site is

The site is a long-form reference. It keeps a labelled record of what Bitcoin has traded at since 2010, how its supply has been issued, how deep its declines have been and how long recoveries have taken, and it explains that record in plain language for a reader who is not a finance professional. Every table carries the source it was compiled from and the vintage it covers, so a figure can be traced back rather than taken on trust.

It is not a news service, a price feed or an investment service. There is no live commentary, no market call and no recommendation. The material is organised so that a reader can arrive with a question about Bitcoin's history or mechanics, find the page that answers it, and see where the answer came from.

Who publishes it

The site is published by a small independent editorial team that writes and maintains it directly. There is no newsroom, no wire service and no syndicated content: every page here was written for this site, and the datasets were compiled and checked by the same people who write about them. That is a deliberate constraint. A reference is only useful if the person describing a number is the person who assembled it.

The publication is not affiliated with any exchange, fund, broker or issuer, and it holds no position in the assets it describes. It carries no advertising and no sponsored content, and it does not accept payment for coverage. Where the site links out — to a primary data source, to a network's own documentation, or to a calculation tool — the link is there because it helps a reader check or use the material, not because of any commercial arrangement.

The site is funded by the people who build and maintain it. That keeps the editorial decisions simple: a page is published because it adds something to the record, and it is corrected because it is wrong, with no third party to consult in either case.

Editorial orientation

Three positions shape everything published here. They are stated plainly so a reader can hold the writing to them.

  • Bitcoin is the subject

    The site is built around Bitcoin's own record: its price history, its fixed issuance schedule, its halving cadence and its cycles. Other networks appear only where a comparison genuinely illuminates Bitcoin — how a different consensus mechanism prices security, how a different supply rule behaves over time — and never as standalone coverage.

  • The record comes before the story

    Where a claim rests on a published figure, the figure and its source are shown. Where it rests on a protocol fact, it is stated as verifiable against the block chain. Where it rests on interpretation, it is written as interpretation with the reasoning visible. The site would rather say less and be checkable than say more and be taken on faith.

  • No prediction, no promotion

    The site does not forecast prices, call cycle turns or describe any asset as a good or bad purchase. It describes what has happened and measures it carefully. A reader looking for a view on what to buy will not find one here, and that is the point.

How to use the site

Most readers arrive with one of three questions. If you want to know what Bitcoin has done, start with the price history and the yearly returns, which carry the full daily and annual record. If you want to understand why it behaves as it does, the protocol and mining pages explain the supply schedule, the halving cadence and the mechanics behind block space. If you want to check a figure you have seen elsewhere, the data sources and methodology page lists every dataset with its source and vintage.

The site is written to be read in either direction. A reader can work through a hub from top to bottom, or land on a single page from a search and find enough context there to use it. Breadcrumbs on every page show where it sits, and each page ends with related reading that continues the thread.

Nothing here is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and no page should be read as a recommendation. The disclaimer sets out what that means in full.

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