Drawing #bitcoin Testing line weights for blocks 210,000 + 420,000 70cm x 70cm Radius - log10 (sats/transaction) Scale - 1 btc = 150mm 210,000 - 457 txs 420,000 - 1257 txs

Drawing #Bitcoin I + IV Halving Block Height: 210000 Total TXs: 457 Timestamp: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:38 GMT Block Height: 840000 Total TXs: 3050 Timestamp: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:09:27 GMT

Drawing #Bitcoin Block Height: 800000 & Block Height: 500000 Drawn with http://drawingbitcoin.com I built this tool to help me visualize blocks that will be made into physical art works. View on as big a screen as possible for best detail. Hit the arrow on the side to turn it into a live display without the info bars.

Drawing #Bitcoin using http://drawingbitcoin.com to explore and compare the first four halving blocks tip: turn off "live block stream" if you don't want the block to refresh as your exploring. Block Height: 210000 Total TXs: 457 Timestamp: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:38 GMT Block Height: 420000 Total TXs: 1257 Timestamp: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:46:13 GMT Block Height: 630000 Total TXs: 3134 Timestamp: Mon, 11 May 2020 19:23:43 GMT 840000Block Height: 840000 Total TXs: 3050 Timestamp: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:09:27 GMT

Drawing #Bitcoin 2nd + 3rd Halving Blocks created using drawingbitcoin.com Block Height: 420000 Total TXs: 1257 Timestamp: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:46:13 GMT Hash: 000000000000000002cce816c0ab2c5c269cb081896b7dcb34b8422d6b74ffa1 Block Height: 630000 Total TXs: 3134 Timestamp: Mon, 11 May 2020 19:23:43 GMT Hash: 000000000000000000024bead8df69990852c202db0e0097c1a12ea637d7e96d

Drawing Bitcoin The first halving block. 2012 #bitcoin started the year around 5$ Block reward halved from 50 -> 25 Network hashrate ~28TH That year; - Obama gets re-eleted - London Summer Olympics - PSY releases Gangnam Style - Facebook IPO Block - 210 000 Timestamp – 2012.11.28 15:28:38 UTC Transactions – 457 Coinbase – 25 BTC + 13.563 Difficulty – 3438908.9601591383 Weight – 796.51 kWU Size – 199.13 kb Hash –000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e

Drawing #Bitcoin Experiments in scale and comparison Playing with a non linear scale applied to every 50,000th block

Drawing Bitcoin Some blocks have thousands of transactions, early blocks have hundreds… This snapshot of block 210 000 captures clusters of transactions around 1 BTC Block - 210 000 Timestamp – 2012.11.28 15:28:38 UTC Transactions – 457 Coinbase – 25 BTC + 13.563 Difficulty – 3438908.9601591383 Weight – 796.51 kWU Size – 199.13 kb Hash –000000000000048b95347e83192f69cf0366076336c639f9b7228e9ba171342e #bitcoin

Drawing Bitcoin One of the first challenges of this project was to understand and establish a scale for drawing blocks. I wanted to represent them at a scale and detail with high resolution that allowed them to be unique and comparable. I wanted to express each transaction within a block and log scale emerged as one of the only ways to draw data with such wide ranges without too much abstraction. Re-sized 1 btc to 150mm this works nicely for now for the first 1,000,000 blocks at a 700 x 700 canvas size First drawing captures the first 4 halving blocks as a comparative study; 210000 - 2012.11.28 420000 - 2016.07.09 630000 - 2020.05.11 840000 – 2024.02.20 The drawing shows an expected pull of transactions towards the centre as the mining reward decreases and the btc price surges. Second drawing shows the mining reward as a layer on top showing the relationship between transaction ranges and reward.

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