Bitcoin is our only hope for a better future.

Description

kibō (hope in japanese, formerly Satonomics) is a suite of tools that aims to help you understand Bitcoin's various dynamics. To do that, there is a wide number of charts and datasets with a scale by date but also by height free for you to explore. Which allows you to verify an incredible number of things, from the number of UTXOs to the repartition of the supply between different groups over time, with many things in between and it's all made possible thanks to Bitcoin's transparency. Whether you're an enthusiast, a researcher, a miner, an analyst, a trader, a skeptic or just curious, there is something new to learn for everyone !

While it's not the first tool trying to solve this problem, it's the first that is completely free, open-source and self-hostable. Which is very important as, just like for Bitcoin itself, I strongly believe that everyone should have access to this kind of data.

If you are a user of mempool.space, you'll find this to be very complimentary, as it's a global and macro view of the chain over time instead.

If we want the world to move towards and, in the end, to be on a Bitcoin standard, we must have tools like this at our disposal.

Donations

This project was started as an answer to the outrageous pricing from Glassnode (and their third tier starting at $833.33/month !).

But it is a lot of work and has been worked on full-time since November of 2023 and has also been operational since then without any ads.

At the time of writing (2024-09-12), this project has made around 2,200,000 sats, which is around $1300 or $120/month. While I'm very grateful for all donations, it's sadly unsustainable.

So if you find this project useful, please send some sats, it would be really appreciated.

If you're a potential sponsor, feel free to contact me in Nostr !

Geyser Fund

Warning

This project is still in an early stage. Until more people look at the code and check the various computations in it, the datasets might be, in the worst case, completely false.

Instances

• kibo.money
• backup.kibo.money

Structure

• parser: The backbone of the project, it does most of the work by parsing and then computing datasets from the timechain
• website: A web app which displays the generated datasets in various charts
• server: A small server which will serve both the website and the computed datasets via an API

Roadmap

• More Datasets/Charts
• Simulations
• Dashboards
• Nostr integration
• API Documentation
• Descriptions
• Start9 support

Setup

Requirements

• At least 16 GB of RAM
• 1 TB of free space (will use 60-80% of that)
• A running instance of bitcoin-core with txindex=1 and rpc credentials
• Git

Docker

Coming soon

Manual

First we need to install Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

If you already had Rust installed you could update it just in case

rustup update

Optionally, you can also install cargo-watch for the server to automatically restart it on file change, which will be triggered by new code and new datasets from the parser (https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch?tab=readme-ov-file#install)

cargo install cargo-watch --locked

Then you need to choose a path where all files related to kibō will live

cd ???

We can now clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kibo-money/kibo.git

In a new terminal, go to the parser's folder of the repository

cd ???/kibo/parser

Now we can finally start by running the parser, you need to use the ./run.sh script instead of cargo run -r as we need to set various system variables for the program to run smoothly

For the first launch, the parser will need several information such as:

• --datadir: which is bitcoin data directory path
• --rpcuser: the username of the RPC credentials to talk to the bitcoin server
• --rpcpassword: the password of the RPC credentials

Everything will be saved in a config.toml file, which will allow you to simply run ./run.sh next time

Here's an example

./run.sh --datadir=$HOME/Developer/bitcoin --rpcuser=satoshi --rpcpassword=nakamoto

In a new terminal, go to the server's folder of the repository

cd ???/kibo/server

And start it also with the run.sh script instead of cargo run -r

./run.sh

Then the easiest to let others access your server is to use cloudflared which will also cache requests. For more information go to: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

Brand

Name

kibō means hope in japanese which is what Bitcoin ultimately is for many, hope for a better future.

Logo

The dove (borrowed from svgrepo for now) is known to represent hope in many cultures.

The orange background is a wink to Bitcoin and when in a circle, it also represents the sun, which means that while it's our hope for a better future, we still have to be careful with our collective goals and actions, to not end up like Icarus.

Infrastructure

Here's the current infrastructure of the main instance and its backup.

It uses 2 servers, a full and a light one without the parser running but with still datasets syncronized via Syncthing.

Cloudflare is used for their tunnel + CDN services.

Though it's recommended to change to default Browser Cache TTL configuration from 4 Hours to Respect Existing Headers (in Websites / YOUR_DOMAIN / Caching / Configuration / Browser Cache TTL) and activate Always use https.

Iterations

A list of all the previous versions and ideas:

• https://github.com/drgarlic/satonomics
• https://github.com/drgarlic/satonomics-parser
• https://github.com/drgarlic/satonomics-explorer
• https://github.com/drgarlic/satonomics-server
• https://github.com/drgarlic/satonomics-app
• https://github.com/drgarlic/bitalisys
• https://github.com/drgarlic/bitesque-app
• https://github.com/drgarlic/bitesque-back
• https://github.com/drgarlic/bitesque-front
• https://github.com/drgarlic/bitesque-assets
• https://github.com/drgarlic/syf