Bitcoin Activity Map

[ArsenShnurkov]

This is all wrong.

Transaction is not a point (yellow point). Transaction is a line with two ends (from and to).

I wish to see transcontinental transactions!

[Vladimir]

bump for awesomeness 
(a screensaver would be cool too)

+1

and make is that it can be scaled fullscreen and persistently placed in background a-la wallpaper

[bitcoinBull]

This is all wrong.

Transaction is not a point (yellow point). Transaction is a line with two ends (from and to).

I wish to see transcontinental transactions!

That's not possible.  The ends between transactions are bitcoin addresses, which do not have gps coordinates.

This highlights the geoip's of nodes broadcasting and re-broadcasting transactions throughout the network.

[Vladimir]

shouldn't it be only new (first seen) transactions?

[Raulo]

shouldn't it be only new (first seen) transactions?

Maybe it should but then it wouldn't blink so much

[bitcoinBull]

shouldn't it be only new (first seen) transactions?

I believe it is.  These aren't confirmations of transactions (those are the red dots).  Just the initial broadcasts before they are confirmed by block inclusion.

[bittersweet]

This highlights the geoip's of nodes broadcasting and re-broadcasting transactions throughout the network.

So basically it's activity of nodes connected to his node? Thanks, now I get it
Would be nice to have a map like this implemented in client

It also works on Opera 11.11 for me, but you might have to enable web sockets:
opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableWebSockets

[tcatm]

shouldn't it be only new (first seen) transactions?

Maybe it should but then it wouldn't blink so much

Yep, that's why I made every re-broadcast show up. Only first seen was boring and I wouldn't be able to tell whether it's really the first node anyway so a transaction from China could show up somewhere in Australia first. The same applies for blocks.

[Vladimir]

cool, how about following bitcoin monitor example and adding bitcoin trades on exchanges?

[bitcoinBull]

cool, how about following bitcoin monitor example and adding bitcoin trades on exchanges?

Trades on exchanges don't have geoips.

[Vladimir]

cool, how about following bitcoin monitor example and adding bitcoin trades on exchanges?

Trades on exchanges don't have geoips.

Not true. There are many exchanges which are located in different parts of the word. Mtgox trades would light up in Japan (or wherever their servers are maybe) Britcoin in London, etc...