Sources and method
Where every number comes from
| Source | What we read | Last read |
|---|---|---|
| X API | Followers and post counts for every account, read every morning; the weekly charts use the Monday reads, kept since April 2025. | Nov 9, 7:38 AM MST |
| YouTube Data API | Subscribers (YouTube rounds them to three figures), total views, video count and recent uploads per channel, read daily. | Nov 9, 7:38 AM MST |
| YouTube Data API, our videos | Views, likes and comments on every Simply Bitcoin video, refreshed every 30 minutes for new videos. | Nov 9, 9:36 AM MST |
| X API, our posts | Views, likes, reposts and replies on each Simply Bitcoin post, read once about a day after its week ends. | Nov 8, 8:00 AM MST |
Times are Mountain time (MST). This page was built Nov 9, 12:05 PM MST. The numbers behind it are in data.json.
How we count
- Public numbers only, read through each platform's official API. Nothing here is estimated or typed by hand.
- Seven-day change compares today's read with the read seven days earlier. Rate is that change as a share of the earlier count.
- Posts in 7 days is the change in the account's post count on X, so it includes replies and reposts.
- The line at the top is written by a fixed rule: it ranks our seven-day X growth against the field by rate and by count and names the better rank when it is in the top three.
- A number we cannot read yet says coming.
- Our best work is ranked by views. Video of the week is the most watched video or live show published in the last seven days; posts of the week are the most viewed posts of the last full week.
The field
The accounts we track, and how we know each YouTube channel is theirs.
| Account | YouTube | Status | Proof |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simply Bitcoin@SimplyBitcoin | @SimplyBitcoin | Confirmed | Our own channel. |
| Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine | @BitcoinMagazine | Confirmed | The channel's About links list x.com/BitcoinMagazine and bitcoinmagazine.com. See it |
| Altcoin Daily@AltcoinDaily | @altcoindaily | Confirmed | The channel's About links list x.com/AltcoinDaily. See it |
| Bitcoin Archive@BitcoinArchive | @BitcoinArchive | Confirmed | The channel's About links list the X follow link for @bitcoinarchive. See it |
| Documenting Bitcoin@DocumentingBTC | none | Not confirmed yet | We have not yet confirmed which YouTube channel belongs to this account. |
| The Bitcoin Conference@TheBitcoinConf | @TheBitcoinConference | Confirmed | The channel's About links to b.tc/conference, the conference's official site. See it |
| Bitcoin.com News@BitcoinNewsCom | none | Not confirmed yet | We have not yet confirmed which YouTube channel belongs to this account. |
| The BTC Therapist@TheBTCTherapist | none | No channel found | No YouTube channel found: the likely handles do not exist and a search finds nothing related. |
| Pete Rizzo@pete_rizzo_ | @bitcoinhistory | Confirmed | The channel's About links to x.com/pete_rizzo_, and peterizzo.com links back to the channel. See it |
| TFTC@TFTC21 | @TFTC | Confirmed | tftc.io links both x.com/TFTC21 and youtube.com/@TFTC, and the channel links back to tftc.io. See it |