CREDITS AND SOURCES

THE BITCOIN CREDIT STACK

Version: 0.2 · Effective date: 21 October 2026

1. Purpose

This page names every source the values published by The Bitcoin Credit Stack rest on, the status of its terms of use and the credit it asks for. Every value served by the API or the MCP server names its own sources; this page is the complete list, readable by a person.

2. The four statuses

Each source has one of the four statuses below. A value's status is the strictest of its sources'; a series' status is the strictest of its values' over the window read.

A restricted or unknown_terms value is never placed in a sold file or a bulk file. A source whose id is not in the register is treated as unknown.

3. Our own observations (own)

None of these sources asks for a third-party credit. Citing our own values is governed by the data licence.

4. Credited sources (attributed)

These values may be sold; every answer that carries them reproduces the credit below, and any reuse must keep it.

(The French text carries an informative French translation of the New York Fed and IEX credits; only the English texts above are served.)

5. Restricted sources (restricted)

These values are served free, with their source named and, where it asks for one, its credit. They are never sold.

The chain indicators valued in dollars (realised capitalisation, realised price, MVRV, SOPR) rest on our node, our fixing and, for dates before 13 July 2020, these three sources; they therefore carry the label free_attributed_only.

6. Sources whose terms are not established (unknown)

These values are served free, with their source named. They are never sold until the source's terms are established.

7. Where the credits appear

a) Series (/v1/series/values, MCP tool get_series, charts): each series carries a licence block (status, providers with each source's id, name and status, and a plain note except for own); the credits of its sources are listed once per source in the answer.

b) Other API routes: routes that serve a value from a provider asking for a credit carry an attribution field with the credit, the link and what it covers — the CoinGecko price, the Federal Reserve Board's and the New York Fed's rates, IEX prices and yields, H.10 exchange rates. The mapping between routes and credits is kept in one place, lib/attribution.js (ROUTES).

c) Absences: an answer that holds only an absence (none of the provider's data) carries no credit, since it holds nothing of the provider's.

d) Site: pages that show a credited value display the credit read from the API's answer.

Where a value names its sources in its answer, that answer states on what terms it may be reused.

8. How this page is built

This page is built from the code, not written beside it, so that it cannot drift from it:

1. The register — gavel-indexer lib/providers.js, object REGISTER: for each source, the id, the name, the status and, where there is one, the credit. The tables of Articles 3 to 6 are its transcription, one row per entry, in register order (19 entries at the commit named in the header).
2. The credits — gavel-indexer lib/attribution.js: the constants BOARD, BOARD_H10, NYFED, IEX, COINGECKO, BINANCE_PRICE (fields text, url, covers). The credit texts of Articles 4 and 5 are copied from them word for word.
3. What each source provides — the default providers in lib/providers.js (defaultProviders, LEGACY_PRICE, TREE), the writers' table in data/specs/licence_providers_v1.md §4 and the credits' covers field, put in readers' words.
4. Where the credits appear — lib/attribution.js (ROUTES, attributionMiddleware) and credit-complex/series-layer.js.

A new version is built at every change to the register or the credits: re-read both files at the commit in production, rebuild the tables from REGISTER (for example: node -e "const {REGISTER}=require('./lib/providers.js'); for (const [id,p] of Object.entries(REGISTER)) console.log(id, p.status, p.name, p.credit?.text ?? '-', p.credit?.url ?? '-')"), record the commit in the header and date the version. A source changes status only by a reasoned edit to the register (its terms read, a licence bought, counsel's answer).