BYTE NEWS — integrity report for the `whales-2026-08b` dataset ======================================================================== This file is the complete record for the second half of August 2026: all 31,153 row(s), 2026-08-16 to 2026-08-31. 35 recorded gap(s) in the last 15 days, totalling 2,965 minutes when this site was not looking. WHAT IS IN THIS FILE This file is the complete record for the second half of August 2026: all 31,153 row(s), 2026-08-16 to 2026-08-31. SCOPE One half-month of the on-chain ledger, complete for its period and frozen once that period has closed. Corrections are recorded against the `whales` dataset and are listed on /whales/ — this file is a slice of the same record, not a second one. COVERAGE — when this dataset's producers were not looking ledgers read: onchain, prices (35 ledger row(s), merged into 35 window(s)) 2026-08-16T02:24:13.117641+00:00 -> 2026-08-16T02:27:13.117641+00:00 3.0 min Stablecoin issuance and redemption a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-16T20:25:11.813601+00:00 -> 2026-08-16T20:25:12.760248+00:00 0.0 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-16T21:22:12.986919+00:00 -> 2026-08-16T21:25:12.986919+00:00 3.0 min Stablecoin issuance and redemption a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T00:28:17.794259+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T00:28:18.773201+00:00 0.0 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-17T07:28:48.734443+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T07:31:48.734443+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T15:12:16.575918+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T15:12:48.344724+00:00 0.5 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-17T17:37:53.681567+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:33:32.415971+00:00 115.6 min The live Bitcoin block feed a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T17:42:30.748169+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T17:45:30.748169+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T17:53:59.791581+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T17:56:59.791581+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:08:27.079487+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:11:27.079487+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:19:56.592933+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:22:56.592933+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:31:28.005060+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:34:28.005060+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:42:57.785235+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:45:57.785235+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:46:03.089253+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:49:03.089253+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:49:13.721526+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:52:13.721526+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:52:19.294076+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:55:19.294076+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:55:32.903970+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T18:58:32.903970+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T18:58:32.992098+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:01:32.992098+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:02:08.942435+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:05:08.942435+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:05:23.712449+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:08:23.712449+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:08:32.868189+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:11:32.868189+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:11:32.962698+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:14:32.962698+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:14:32.974225+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:17:32.974225+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:17:33.231876+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:20:33.231876+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-17T19:20:43.851282+00:00 -> 2026-08-17T19:23:43.851282+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-19T11:15:50.252735+00:00 -> 2026-08-19T11:18:50.252735+00:00 3.0 min Large token transfers a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-19T15:25:47.293289+00:00 -> 2026-08-19T15:28:47.293289+00:00 3.0 min Stablecoin issuance and redemption a source we read stopped answering 2026-08-21T03:51:37.156495+00:00 -> 2026-08-21T03:51:39.431919+00:00 0.0 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-21T03:51:55.716129+00:00 -> 2026-08-21T03:51:58.312847+00:00 0.0 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-21T03:54:21.912169+00:00 -> 2026-08-21T03:54:23.505640+00:00 0.0 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-25T21:33:52.623502+00:00 -> 2026-08-25T21:34:07.236947+00:00 0.2 min The live Bitcoin block feed our live connection to the chain dropped 2026-08-28T09:26:57.625322+00:00 -> 2026-08-28T09:29:57.625322+00:00 3.0 min Large Bitcoin transfers we had no price to measure against, so nothing here could be sized 2026-08-28T20:47:57.833857+00:00 -> 2026-08-28T23:59:59.999999+00:00 192.0 min The live price tape the reading was taken and could not be written down 2026-08-29T00:00:00+00:00 -> 2026-08-29T23:59:59.999999+00:00 1440.0 min The live price tape the reading was taken and could not be written down 2026-08-30T00:00:00+00:00 -> 2026-08-30T19:04:22+00:00 1144.4 min The live price tape the reading was taken and could not be written down DENSITY — rows per day against the median day of the window median 2,166/day, mean 1,947.1/day 2026-08-16 785 2026-08-17 1,426 2026-08-18 1,545 2026-08-19 2,026 2026-08-20 2,581 2026-08-21 3,137 2026-08-22 1,694 2026-08-23 1,361 2026-08-24 2,326 2026-08-25 2,342 2026-08-26 2,437 2026-08-27 2,494 2026-08-28 2,371 2026-08-29 1,243 2026-08-30 1,079 2026-08-31 2,306 CORRECTIONS — what has been revised since publication (none) OUR OWN DOWNTIME — recorded incidents inside this window 2026-10-07 38 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 38 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-06 44 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 44 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-06 107 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 107 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-06 47 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 47 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-03 39 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 39 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-03 46 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 46 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-10-02 65 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 65 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-29 57 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 57 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-28 44 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 44 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-28 39 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 39 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-28 37 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 37 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-28 31 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 31 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-25 31 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 31 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-24 31 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 31 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-22 48 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 48 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-21 37 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 37 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-20 67 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 67 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-12 425 min down A disk cleanup deleted two folders the publisher needed, and it stopped starting 2026-09-08 402 min down The wire wrote no ledger row for 402 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-07 31 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 31 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-04 43 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 43 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-03 54 min degraded The wire wrote no ledger row for 54 minutes (stage 'budget') [NOT YET WRITTEN UP] 2026-09-01 35 min degraded We published a wrong gold price for 35 minutes 2026-09-01 49 min degraded Publishing ran at half speed for 49 minutes 2026-08-30 33 min degraded Publishing ran at half speed for 33 minutes 2026-08-28 43 min degraded Publishing ran at half speed for 43 minutes 2026-08-28 2,776 min degraded The price record had a 46-hour hole and nothing said so 2026-08-26 78 min degraded Publishing ran at half speed for 78 minutes 2026-08-19 1,264 min down The wire published nothing for 21 hours 2026-08-17 33 min degraded The wire wrote the news and published none of it 2026-08-17 63 min degraded Large Bitcoin transfers went unreported for an hour WHAT THE CHECKS DID NOT CHECK Not printed here. How many checks the suite ran is a fact about the current checkout rather than about this archive file, which does not change once its period has closed. It is on the live dataset at /api/v1/whales.json. This report is assembled from records this site already keeps; it adds no new collection. The datasets it describes: /api/v1/whales-2026-08b.json and .csv