Here's a fullrender of the first thousand blocks.
It's time to begin identifying our new miners from 660 to 1000.
Looking at this graph makes me proud. The discovery, it beckons...
Edit 3/22 15:48. I'm going to start using my local time, because it's a pain to convert.
I'm going to take a break from the higher blocks and start looking back on the foundation.
Below would be blocks 0 to 25 plotted not by height, but by timestamp:
It seems that both satoshi and the first early adopter (who picked up block 12) have stopped mining shortly after Jan/09/2009 04:33:09.
Bitcoin was essentially dead for 24 hours, until satoshi put his rig back on (and in doing so, reset his extraNonce and begin the next iteration) and found block 15 on Jan/10/09 04:45:46. (He then found block 16, an impressive 12 seconds later (a record at the time.))
I'm not certain why satoshi mined block 0 on the 3rd, and then waited for the 9th to release the client.
There's probably a good reason, but we'll see. Maybe.
Edit 15:59. Here's all the action that took place on January 9:
I'll be honest, I thought we'd see a constant slope. I'm no expert, but I can officially conclude I have no idea what extraNonce is even for, or how it behaves. Just that we can see some significantly applicable patterns.
Edit 16:14. From the data I've got so far, January 10 is cut in half. Bitcoin "died" again at around 7 AM, to be revieved at 3:30 PM, 8 hours later.
Here's the first half:
The two blocks on the bottom right *might* have been satoshi's. I'll get some more data, and see if we can link them to Mr. Nakamoto.
Edit 16:19. Here's the revival of the bitcoin network, up to the end of the iteration.
Those two blocks on the bottom left are not the same as the ones on the bottom right of the previous chart.
Those four have always confused me. Satoshi mined at least two of them... Which ones, I don't know.
Edit 18:34. Whoever mined 955 has an extremely impressive amount of coins.
Edit 18:49. There are so many addresses that instead of choosing a pseudonym from characters in it, I'll just call this miner
Narwhal. Get it? It's a whale? Well, if you have a better idea, let me know.
Edit 18:53. Whoever mined 956 was more likely than not PUR3.
Edit 18:57. PUR3 is Druid?
Edit 18:59. If PUR3 is Druid, then he had more than one miner in the triple-digit blocks.
Edit 19:03. 964, Narwhal.
Edit 19:11. 979, Narwhal.
Edit 19:13. 994, Narwhal.
Edit 19:14. 996, Narwhal.