This page documents how Bitcoin Digital produces two things readers rely on: our live market data (the Signal Board) and our structured analysis (the Digital Take). We keep it in step with what the site actually does — if our sources or cadence change, this page changes with them.
The Digital Take framework
The Digital Take is our signature analysis device. It appears on news stories, explainers and coin pages, and it always follows the same structure:
- What happened / what’s driving it — the development or the state of play, plainly stated.
- Why it matters — the significance, in context, without overstatement.
- What to watch — the specific signals, events or levels that would change the picture.
- The data behind it — the evidence, attributed to a named source.
Every Digital Take is attributed to the Bitcoin Digital Editorial desk, carries a “context, not advice” tag and a last-updated marker, and is human-written. It is reasoning and evidence — not a buy or sell recommendation and not a price guarantee. Where it discusses a possible price path, that is framed explicitly as a scenario for context, never as a target to trade on. A contributor who holds an asset discloses it within the take, and the desk does not trade ahead of its own coverage.
Where our market data comes from
All of our live data is drawn from keyless, publicly-available sources. We do not use paid or restricted feeds, and we attribute sources on the pages that use them:
- Prices, 24-hour changes, historical candles and charts — Binance public market data. Coin pages and the ticker read from this.
- Crypto Fear & Greed Index — Alternative.me.
- DeFi total-value-locked and stablecoin supply — DefiLlama.
- Ethereum gas fees — public Ethereum RPC nodes, read live for the gas tracker.
- Bitcoin halving countdown — public Bitcoin network data (current block height), with the estimated date derived from average block time.
We deliberately do not rely on CoinGecko’s free tier, Glassnode or Etherscan. Naming the real providers is part of being honest with you about what you are looking at.
Refresh cadence and caching
Different data changes at different speeds, so we cache accordingly: fast-moving prices and gas on a short cycle (around a minute), sentiment and network data less often (up to a few hours), and heavier market aggregates in between. Caching keeps the site fast and respects the public sources we depend on.
We never fabricate a value to fill a gap. If a source is briefly unavailable, the Signal Board shows the last known-good figure or a clearly-marked loading state — never a zero, an em-dash or an invented number. A blank is more honest than a fake.
What the data can and cannot tell you
Market data describes the market; it does not predict it. A price is a snapshot from one venue’s public feed and can differ slightly from other exchanges. Market capitalisation depends on the supply figure used. Sentiment indices summarise mood, not fundamentals. We surface these numbers to inform, and we pair them with human context — but none of it is a signal to act, and none of it is financial advice.
Sourcing and corrections
Reporting is sourced to primary evidence and linked out wherever possible. When we get something wrong, we fix it openly under our corrections policy. If you believe a figure or a claim is off, please tell us — we would rather be corrected than be wrong. For the rules that govern our coverage, see our editorial standards.