§ sources

named, not hidden.

oc globe computes nothing of its own. It is a thin client over public Bitcoin infrastructure — a convenience layer, never the authoritative implementation. Everything it draws is independently reproducible against the network itself.

the whole picture, one source

mempool.space

Read directly from your browser over its public API and websocket — no key, no proxy, no server of ours in the path. Open source (AGPL): self-host it over your own Bitcoin Core node and repoint, and nothing about the picture changes.

mempool.space ↗

§ every layer, mapped

6 layers · one source

layer	what you see	endpoint	refresh
blocks	tip height, the pool that found it, the heartbeat pulse	/v1/blocks + ws	live · on each block
mempool	depth, throughput, the orbiting fee field	/mempool + ws	live · ~1s
fees	next-block fee rate, the fee-band colouring	/v1/fees + ws	live · ~1s
nodes	the glowing markers — node count per country	/v1/lightning/nodes/countries	~hourly
lightning	node / channel / capacity totals	/v1/lightning/statistics/latest	~daily
hashrate	network hashrate, difficulty countdown	/v1/mining/pools/1w	~per block

§ where the picture is coarser

2 known limits

§ the markers

They are lightning nodes, by country. The obvious source for full peer-to-peer topology — Bitnodes — went dark in May 2026 when its domain lapsed after twelve years. Until a replacement crawler is trustworthy, the glowing markers are the public Lightning node set — a real, reproducible read of where the network concentrates, but a country-level one, not a dot per reachable peer.

§ the positions

They are country centroids. mempool.space reports node counts per country, not a coordinate per node, so a marker sits at the country's centre of mass. It answers "where does the network concentrate" honestly — not "which building is this node in".

§ what globe is not

a viewer, not an oracle.

globe holds no keys, moves no funds, and asks for no account. It mints nothing and allocates no protocol identifiers — it is a read over bitcoin's public network state, in the same posture as oc·btc. If mempool.space disappeared tomorrow the network would be unchanged; only this picture of it would go dark.

· no custody· no kyc· no account required· not a verb · no kinds