The firehose: watch the notebook being written.

Every orange dot is a real bitcoin transaction, arriving live and waiting in the open block. Every ~10 minutes, a miner wins the lottery, scoops the page, and stamps it onto the chain. You're watching money settle, worldwide, right now.

tx per second (observed)
waiting in mempool
current block height

connecting to live feed…

What you're watching

The waiting room, the auction, the stamp

The dots are broadcast transactions — someone, somewhere, just hit send. Bigger dots move more value (log-scaled, or the whale transfers would fill your screen). They land in the mempool: the waiting room for the next page of the notebook.

The scoop is a real block. When the height ticks up, a miner somewhere just won the ten-minute lottery, gathered waiting transactions — highest fees first, since they're bidding for page space — and sealed them into history. What you see slide onto the chain at the bottom really happened, seconds ago.

The rhythm is the point. No opening bell, no business hours, no one to call. Sunday 3am looks exactly like Monday noon. Leave this page open for ten minutes and you'll witness something no bank can show you: settlement, live, with nobody in charge.

One honest note: this stream shows transactions as one well-connected node hears about them — a real-time sample of the gossip, not a god's-eye view. Which is also, incidentally, exactly what your own node would see.