Meltrate — how fast is the dollar melting? Priced in BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE & gold

Sources: CoinGecko · Coinbase Exchange · Yahoo Finance · FRED (BLS/CPI) · The Economist Big Mac Index · verified vendor prices. Coin + gold prices tick every minute; CPI items update when BLS publishes (monthly); fixed items (Costco dog, iPhone, Netflix, latte) update when their publishers do. ⚠ Melt Index: some denoms make items cheaper in denom terms over time — that's the melt doing its job, not a bug in our thermometer.

The Melt Wall

Every asset's full history, priced in your denom. The melt rate is the annualized % change — how fast that thing is escaping (or sinking against) your money.

everything priced in gold

denominate everything in:

Bars are log-ish scaled (power 0.35) so a house and an egg can share a screen. Values = how many of each thing equal one unit of the target.

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What one denom buys right now

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The Race: how each coin's price has moved

Normalized from each coin's first common date. Y axis = your money multiplied. Spoiler: it is not a tight race.