Improved the modal view's look and functionality on my site. In modal view, double-tap to zoom in on visualizations and again to zoom out. There's one more small optimization I'm working on now...you probably won't even notice it once it's finished though. 😅

New Slideshow Mode is live on wickedsmartbitcoin.com Cycle through your favorite Bitcoin visualizations hands-free and in fullscreen.

You may not like the kinds of non-standard transactions miners are including in blocks today, but one day, you might need one confirmed yourself. It’s a strength of the network that transaction inclusion asymmetrically favors the minority.

The last 6 months in bitcoin...

Added a menu button in the top right corner of my site. Now you can star/unstar all images at once and select which image information (title, description, or both) to search.

Running mempool

Added little labels at the bottom of this epoch candles visualization for the genesis block date, each past halving date, and an estimated next halving date based on 10-minute blocks.

Cleaned up the monthly, yearly, and epoch candle visualizations. All three are now updated hourly on my site. 🍻

For this Bitcoin UTXO distribution analysis, I excluded UTXOs worth 0 sats & OP_RETURN outputs from the KPIs but included their counts and the value burned in OP_RETURN outputs at the bottom of the table: 5,112,996,066 sats (51+ BTC) that'll never see the light of day again.

Bitcoin just had another day of perfect issuance. 24 hr ÷ 10 min/block = 144 blocks 144 × 3.125 BTC = 450 BTC