The Clark Moody Bitcoin Dashboard (bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard) is a free, single-screen live view of Bitcoin's key vitals — spot price and futures, sats-per-dollar, market capitalization, all-time-high statistics, Bitcoin priced in gold and other assets, and network fundamentals (block height, hashrate, difficulty, fees, and Lightning statistics). Built by Bitcoin developer Clark Moody, it condenses market and network data that would otherwise require several sites into one continuously-updating panel. The register is Introductory → Foundational: the price and "sats per dollar" tiles are legible to any newcomer, while the network and derivatives sections reward a reader who knows what they mean. It is a fast orientation instrument rather than an analytical platform.


Level

Introductory → Foundational. The price, market-cap, and sats-per-dollar tiles are immediately readable by a beginner; the hashrate, difficulty, fee, futures, and Lightning tiles assume some grounding in what those figures represent. No account or configuration required.


Why this source matters

The dashboard fills the at-a-glance orientation slot: a single URL that answers “what is Bitcoin doing right now — in price, in the market, and on the network — all at once.” Where mempool.space is the deep explorer of the chain and the on-chain analytics platforms supply interpretation, the Clark Moody dashboard supplies the top-line vitals in one continuously-updating view. It is the panel a user leaves open to stay oriented.

Its pedagogical value is in juxtaposition. Placing price, market cap, sats-per-dollar, network hashrate, fees, and Bitcoin-priced-in-gold side by side on one screen teaches a beginner that “the Bitcoin number” is several distinct measures at once — market valuation, purchasing power, network security, and settlement cost — rather than a single price. The sats-per-dollar tile in particular reframes Bitcoin from a high-unit-price asset to a divisible money, a small but effective conceptual nudge.


Bibliographic details

  • Title: Clark Moody Bitcoin Dashboard
  • URL: bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard
  • Author: Clark Moody, a Bitcoin developer and long-time market-data builder
  • Format: Live web dashboard — market, valuation, and network tiles on a single screen; configurable currency and layout
  • Pricing: Free, no account
  • Level: Introductory → Foundational
  • Bitcoin scope: Bitcoin-only market and network data

What the dashboard shows

Grouped tiles on a single configurable screen:

  • Price and market — spot price, futures, market capitalization, sats-per-dollar.
  • All-time-high statistics — ATH price, decline from ATH, ATH date, days since.
  • Relative value — Bitcoin priced in gold and other reference assets.
  • Network fundamentals — block height, hashrate, difficulty (and adjustment context), fee estimates.
  • Lightning — network capacity and node/channel statistics.

The specific figures update live; the dashboard’s function is orientation, not historical analysis or forecasting.


How to engage this platform

As a standing orientation panel. Keep it open for a continuously-current read on price, market, and network state without assembling data from multiple sites.

As a beginner’s conceptual aid. Use the sats-per-dollar and Bitcoin-priced-in-gold tiles to teach divisibility and relative valuation; use the side-by-side layout to show that price, security (hashrate), and settlement cost (fees) are distinct dimensions of the same system.

Paired with depth tools. For anything beyond top-line vitals — chain exploration, on-chain interpretation, historical series — move to mempool.space (chain and fees) and the Checkonchain / On-Chain Mind analytics platforms.


Counter-arguments and tensions

A dashboard, not analysis. The panel shows current values; it does not interpret them, contextualize cycles, or forecast. Its value is orientation, and it is best paired with the analytical layer rather than mistaken for it.

Price-forward framing. Leading with price and market tiles suits a market-oriented user but foregrounds the speculative dimension; a learner should read the network and purchasing-power tiles as the more durable measures and treat the price tile as the least informative about Bitcoin’s fundamentals.

Third-party data. As a hosted dashboard aggregating market and network feeds, it is a convenience view, not a trust-minimized one — appropriate for orientation, not for verifying one’s own transactions (for which a self-hosted mempool.space against one’s own node is the right tool).


Where to find this source

Place in the broader Bitcoin canon


Open questions

  • Does the single-screen vitals format remain the community-default orientation panel, or do integrated wallet/node dashboards absorb the function?
  • How much of the dashboard’s teaching value comes specifically from the sats-per-dollar and priced-in-gold reframings versus the raw data aggregation?

Sibling data and reference resources in §16

Concepts the tiles surface

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