BITNODES
Bitnodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network. The current methodology involves sending getaddr messages recursively to find all the reachable nodes in the network, starting from a set of seed nodes.
Even more impressive is THIS VISUALIZATION by the same author of all the Bitcoin nodes and the node density. Although the network structure is not clearly visible, it really suggests that there is a new “universe” evolving in finance:
BITNODES( Link)
The following VISUALIZATION uses the Open Source vivagraph.js library to display the networked nature of Bitcoin. You can see Bitcoin transaction happening in real-time and the evolving hubs of the Bitcoin network.
This one by LUCHENDRICKS goes in the same direction – it is also a visualization of live Bitcoin transaction. Here the size of the nodes represents the volume of the transaction. Every node also carries a link to all information on the transaction on bitcoin.info.
This VISUALIZER represents each Bitcoin transaction as a metallic ball, scaled to the size of the transaction. The balls drop onto a table, allowing you to click on them to gauge their actual size. The table usually fills up with a mess of smaller 1-10 BTC balls before being sent into disarray by a big blue 100-1000 BTC orb. With a single Bitcoin at a current USD value of $421, those larger orbs represent pretty substantial transactions. And they aren’t rare, you’ll probably see at least ten a minute, and they aren’t even the smallest size in the visualizer.
All this information is real time in most cases.
Great !!!
Nice way to learn about Bitcoin, thanks!