OC Globe
The Bitcoin network, live, on one globe.
Lightning nodes by country, every block, the mempool and the hashrate, streamed live from Bitcoin's own public state. No account, no wallet, nothing to buy.
Expand it to orbit, zoom and read any marker. The orbiting motes are the live mempool, coloured by fee.
Expand it to orbit, zoom and read any marker. The orbiting motes are the live mempool, coloured by fee.
Where the nodes are
The network is not evenly spread.
Every point on the globe is a country, sized by the lightning nodes mempool.space places there from their IP addresses. Nodes reachable only over Tor have no location and are not counted. Read as a list, the concentration is the story: a handful of countries carry most of the nodes that can be placed.
Live, on each block
The last blocks
About every ten minutes a pool wins the next block. These are the most recent, newest first; the first is the chain tip.
Read from block versions
The BIP-110 signal
BIP-110 is a proposed soft fork that limits arbitrary data on chain. Its deployment counts the blocks whose version sets bit 4. Here is that count, read live from block headers.
Share of the last 7 days
Who’s mining
Which pools are finding blocks. A handful find most of them: the other half of the concentration story the globe tells.
By capacity
Lightning’s biggest hubs
The nodes carrying the most bitcoin in payment channels, ranked by the sats locked in them.
The network, made visible.
Everything here is a read of Bitcoin's own public state. Anyone can reproduce it: run mempool over your own Bitcoin Core node, with a Lightning node and MaxMind's GeoLite2 databases, and you get the same picture.
With thanks to Bram Kanstein (opens in a new tab), whose work on Bitcoin as a sovereignty layer shaped the premise.