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Bitcoin Blockchain Visualization

267 points| runpat | 5 years ago |symphony.iohk.io | reply

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[+] sashimi-houdini|5 years ago|reply
Truly art for art's sake this, and such a beautiful mirror on Bitcoin: I could feel the warmth of a thousand miners coming from my laptop while opening this.
[+] dylan604|5 years ago|reply
Nah, that was just the GPU kicking to Ludicrous speed to render.
[+] jaegerma|5 years ago|reply
The fly mode reminds me of the 3D scenes from the movie "Hackers" from 1995 where they "flew" through the system looking for interesting files
[+] kmano8|5 years ago|reply
Also the MS Excel simulator Easter egg.
[+] berenza|5 years ago|reply
txstreet is a bit more informative as a visualizer https://txstreet.com/v/btc-eth
[+] vmception|5 years ago|reply
not really because blocks contain transactions of many transaction fees, not just the highest transaction fees

its always bugged me about txstreet, but I didn't have other visualizations to suggest, now I do

[+] MauranKilom|5 years ago|reply
When opening with Firefox (in private tab, with uBO) it tells me to upgrade my browser because internet explorer is not supported.
[+] tom_mellior|5 years ago|reply
Same here (private tab, without uBlockOrigin). If you click on the big image showing a 1990s style virtual reality room (I only did this by accident, nothing about it suggests clicking it), you do get to... a mostly empty 1990s style virtual reality room. Besides panning the camera around with the mouse, it's not clear to me what to do there. I closed the tab at that point.
[+] digerata|5 years ago|reply
Crashes latest Firefox and Safari on Mac.

Why not just build an app if you are going to be browser specific...

[+] Black101|5 years ago|reply
Although very slow, it works in Firefox 87/Linux... In dear need of optimizations...
[+] ur-whale|5 years ago|reply
Same here.

[EDIT]: seems to work in Brave

[+] runpat|5 years ago|reply
Beautiful visualization of the Bitcoin Blockchain, calms me down while hodling
[+] skzv|5 years ago|reply
It appears less full blocks are more dissonant. I wonder if that's intentional.
[+] nomilk|5 years ago|reply
My jaw dropped. Breathtaking.
[+] mrfusion|5 years ago|reply
Anyone know if there’s something like this for etherum 2.0? I can’t wrap my head around how pos works.
[+] meowkit|5 years ago|reply
There is not a visualizer as far as I am aware.

PoS is not that much different in a generalized sense. Blocks are made up of transactions, and people/nodes propose blocks.

Instead of miners, there are stakers. Instead of randomly seeing which miner can solve the block challenge fastest, random stakers are tasked with solving the challenge.

Look up how the beaconchain works for ETH.

[+] vmception|5 years ago|reply
this is great, would love to have this going on one wall

wish it was possible to jump to the prior block that a transaction was from, ie. when clicking on a transaction, it would be cool if it showed a bunch of links to the last blocks+transactions that the inputs were from. in that visualization model it would be extremely computationally expensive, but a fun way to teleport around the rings

also another feature request would be a way to jump to a specific block by block height, or range of blocks by day. just by typing one in

[+] kang|5 years ago|reply
The headline should be "cool js" because although this visualization uses bitcoin data, it doesn't help see anything about bitcoin.

Blocks are an abstract entity relative to mempool

[+] exdsq|5 years ago|reply
What do you mean they’re an abstract entity?
[+] chrisco255|5 years ago|reply
It lets you click on each transaction and see the individual UTXOs.
[+] dogman144|5 years ago|reply
Blocks are literally file system-like blocks on disk, so they’re there somewhere.
[+] roguson|5 years ago|reply
What a beautiful art website, downside is that it is too slow for my browser to make it fully responsive. Website's designed for Bitcoin Chads HODLERs.
[+] chrisvalleybay|5 years ago|reply
Be sure to check out the Mozilla Hubs Room as well. Very interesting!
[+] ur-whale|5 years ago|reply
Reminds me of a game from a long time ago on SGI called tranquility.
[+] m00dy|5 years ago|reply
amazing work. Congratz