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Visualization of the unspent transaction outputs in the Bitcoin Blockchain

3 pointsby gitmagicover 8 years ago

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gitmagicover 8 years ago
This is a website I created just for fun to visualize the distribution of the unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) in the Bitcoin blockchain.<p>Each pixel in the images represents one block. So the first pixel (counted left to right from the top) is the genesis&#x2F;first block. If you hover over that pixel in the first image (orange), you&#x27;ll see that it has a block height of 1, and 1 unspent transaction output in it. If you hover over the same pixel in the other image (blue), you will see that it has a combined value of 50 BTC.<p>So by looking at these two images, you can see how the UTXOs (&quot;coins&quot;) are distributed over the whole blockchain. You can also see where most of the value is stored with the blue image.<p>Naturally, a lot of the &quot;coins&quot; and its value are concentrated at the end of the blockchain. But it&#x27;s also possible to see that there&#x27;s a lot of unspent coins in the blocks of early 2013. The same applies to the blocks in mid 2015.<p>Let me know if you have any questions :)