BitcoinRain.io - Live Transaction Rate Visualisation

[tobasco]

Hey everyone,

I've made a website that visualises new transactions (and blocks) on the bitcoin network as they're received by a node:

http://bitcoinrain.io



I thought it would make for a cool visualisation. Other than that, it also keeps track of the current size of the memory pool and the last block received.

Anyway, thought I'd post here to get some criticism and any ideas for improvement. Hope you enjoy watching it.

[OmegaStarScream]

It looks good, good work. As a suggestion, I think it would better to make the transactions fill the whole screen and then get it emptied once It's full instead of hitting the surface for a sec and then disappearing.

[tobasco]

It looks good, good work. As a suggestion, I think it would better to make the transactions fill the whole screen and then get it emptied once It's full instead of hitting the surface for a sec and then disappearing.

Thanks.

That's a cool idea. I'd like to implement that actually, but the mempool can often exceed 10,000+ transactions at a time, which would be slow to draw on the screen (I want to try and keep the rain as fluid as possible).

As a compromise, you can see the mempool by clicking the screen. Transactions "enter" it and increase the count and size of it. When a block arrives, you can see the mempool decrease in size as the block passes across it.

Thanks for the idea though, it would be cool to find a way of visually representing each individual transaction as opposed to having them disappear in to the mempool.

[Kemarit]

Cool website. Maybe its better though to move your website to a SSL.  . And yes, its literally raining and its fun to watch. Just noticed that the 'bi' is somewhat separated from 'tcoinrain' Is that how you design it?