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This looks like something from Tron, trippy. The height of the block is the amount of BTC, there are some huge (thousands of BTC) transactions happening. On a semi related note, I built a 3D visualization (globe) to see where these blocks are geographically mined. https://coinminingstats.com/globe

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Very snappy site, nice work!

What front-end technologies did you use to build it?

I guess you're synching data to local storage and then querying it to get those quick page loads?

Its a vue.js site that I host statically on Netlify, with django backend on heroku that pulls all the data. The trick to get things to load quickly is caching the data on https://www.keycdn.com/ (with the right headers you can set it up that the CDN queries the slow pages in the background and serves the cached ones meanwhile to keep things near real-time). I might do a writeup about that it took me a while to figure out.

I would happily read such a write-up.

Would be cool to see a heat map of this, or a historical view you can scrub through.

I see you've bought in to the 'earth is a globe' conspiracy :)

What's the tech behind that visualization?

I'm using https://threejs.org/ for the webgl stuff, the tricky part was figuring out how to map the coordinates to change the country highlighting. Ended up having to write a custom shader which was quite the learning curve :)

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