§ oc · globe
the whole bitcoin network, in one living world.
Every reachable node, every block, the lightning graph, the hashrate — streamed live from bitcoin's own public state. No account, no wallet, nothing to buy.
tap any node to read it · expand to orbit + zoom · the orbiting motes are the live mempool, coloured by fee.
§ where the nodes are
the network is not evenly spread. it never has been.
Every point on the globe above is a country, sized by the bitcoin nodes running there. Read as a list, the concentration is the story — a handful of jurisdictions carry most of the routable network.
Every ~10 minutes a pool wins the next block. Here are the most recent, newest first — the top card is the current chain tip.
The most-contested change in bitcoin right now — a soft fork to limit arbitrary on-chain data. Whether miners are signaling it is written into every block; here it is, read live.
Which pools are finding blocks, by share of the last week. A handful of pools find most of them — the other half of the concentration story the globe tells.
The nodes carrying the most bitcoin in payment channels — the second layer's load-bearing beams, ranked by sats locked.
§ watch the network
the network, made visible. nodes, blocks, channels, hashrate.
Everything here is a read over bitcoin's own public state — no compute of ours, no account, nothing to buy. Anyone can reproduce it: self-host mempool over your own bitcoin core node and you get the same picture.
with thanks to bram kanstein — whose work on bitcoin as sovereignty layer shaped the premise.