TIMECHAIN · GRID
in development
NetworkMainnet
Block height~876,500
Cycle~10 min
Halvings4 / ∞
Wallets indexed1.0M – 3.0M
Live tailP2P

Bitcoin · public ledger · 2009 → now

The timechain,
drawn as a graph.

A force-directed lattice of Bitcoin wallets and the transactions between them. Nodes spawn as the chain grows, find their place by mass and activity, and form transient bonds with every block. Satoshi at the origin. Scrubbable, block by block, from genesis to now.

Obsidian-style force layout~880,000 blocksup to ~3M walletsself-hosted bitcoind

Time axis

scrub coming v0.1
Halving epochsgenesis → projected
200950 BTC
201225 BTC
201612.5 BTC
20206.25 BTC
20243.125 BTC
~20281.5625 BTC

The vision

Bitcoin's blockchain is the largest publicly observed economic civilization in history. Every wallet is an actor. Every transaction is an event. Every block is a tick of a global clock that has not stopped since 3 January 2009.

Timechain Grid renders that civilization as a single, continuous, force-directed surface — modeled after the Obsidian vault graph but layered onto real money. Wallets are nodes. Transactions are bonds that flicker into existence and fade. Mass — a function of holdings and recent activity — pulls the busy and the wealthy toward the origin. Satoshi anchors the center forever.

How it works

Nodes

Real Bitcoin addresses. Filtered to economically meaningful actors — miners (every coinbase recipient ever) plus significant wallets (>1 BTC ever held or >100 lifetime txs).

Position

Force-directed in 2D, like Obsidian’s graph view. Mass = log(holdings) + activity score. Origin pulls high-mass wallets inward; nodes repel each other; bond springs draw connected wallets together. Pre-baked offline so the browser interpolates instead of simulating.

Bonds

When wallet A sends to wallet B in block N, an edge appears between them. Alpha and spring force decay smoothly to zero over the next ten blocks. Color encodes the satoshi amount.

Time

A block-by-block scrubber across all of history. Slide back to genesis and watch the first miners scatter into the void; slide forward and see the network thicken, the halvings flash by, the modern whales gravitate toward center.

Access tiers

gated by data resolution, not features

Every tier sees the same canvas, the same scrubber, the same physics. What changes is how much of the network is rendered. The free tier gives you the whales and the major mining pools. Paid tiers admit progressively smaller wallets and midsize miners, thickening the lattice toward the full ~1–3M-node database.

Free~10k nodes

Visibility threshold

> 1,000 BTC ever held · top miners

  • Block-by-block scrubber across all of history
  • Full hover + click-to-inspect on visible nodes
  • Halving epoch quick-jumps
  • Live current-block tail
0 satsv0.1
Pro~500k nodes

Visibility threshold

> 10 BTC ever held · midsize miners

  • Everything in Free
  • Search any address in the visible set
  • Wallet activity timeline (full history)
  • Pre-baked physics keyframes — fluid scrubbing
TBD ⚡v0.1

paid in BTC / Lightning · KYC-free

Max~1–3M nodes

Visibility threshold

> 1 BTC OR > 100 lifetime txs · all miners

  • Everything in Pro
  • Common-input ownership clustering
  • Click-to-highlight wallet empires
  • Bond density unlimited — see every tx edge
  • Tor onion access
TBD ⚡v0.1

paid in BTC / Lightning · KYC-free

Roadmap

  1. v0.1in development

    Static Lattice

    • Free tier ships first — whales + major miners
    • Deterministic positions, block-by-block scrubber
    • Hover, click, halving epoch quick-jumps
    • Live current-block tail via own infra
  2. v0.2planned

    Living Lattice

    • Pre-baked Obsidian-style force physics
    • Pro tier opens — relaxed holdings + midsize miners
    • Transaction bonds with alpha decay
    • 24-hour block production ring
  3. v0.3horizon

    Cluster Lattice

    • Max tier — full ~3M-node database
    • Common-input ownership clustering
    • Wallet empire highlighting
    • Tor onion service · BIP-322 sign-in

Privacy

Source data flows from Bitcoin's own peer-to-peer protocol into a self-hosted full node. Extraction runs offline. Snapshots are distributed from a CDN bucket we control — no per-viewer telemetry, no third-party fonts, no analytics, no tracking. Paid tiers are paid in BTC over Lightning, so even payment is KYC-free.

  • ▸Self-hosted bitcoind + electrs
  • ▸Static parquet on own CDN
  • ▸No third-party scripts, no Google Fonts
  • ▸No analytics, no fingerprinting
  • ▸Lightning payments — no KYC
  • ▸Tor onion service planned for v0.3