BYTE NEWS — integrity report for the `whales-2026-08a` dataset
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This file is the complete record for the first half of August 2026: all 2,933 row(s), 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-15. 2 recorded gap(s) in the last 4 days, totalling 3 minutes when this site was not looking. 2 day(s) carry fewer than a quarter of the median day.

WHAT IS IN THIS FILE
  This file is the complete record for the first half of August 2026: all 2,933 row(s), 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-15.

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  (2 ledger row(s), merged into 2 window(s))
  2026-08-14T21:23:51.746296+00:00 -> 2026-08-14T21:23:53.158473+00:00       0.0 min  The live Bitcoin block feed  our live connection to the chain dropped
  2026-08-15T22:34:12.835211+00:00 -> 2026-08-15T22:37:12.835211+00:00       3.0 min  Stablecoin issuance and redemption  a source we read stopped answering

DENSITY — rows per day against the median day of the window
  median 184/day, mean 586.6/day
  2026-08-11         5  THIN
  2026-08-12         3  THIN
  2026-08-13       184
  2026-08-14     1,725
  2026-08-15     1,016

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
  2026-08-13     436 min  down  The wire stopped publishing for seven hours and nothing recovered it

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-2026-08a.json and .csv