Current loading of the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin in critical overload mode

Time is going, cryptocurrencies are developing, they enjoy more and more people, and because of this, more questions appear.

Recently, the question of confirming transactions is especially acute, since sometimes they have to wait too long. How it works and where to check the load workload we will now tell.

Mempole Bitcoin, what is it and where to see? In the blockchain there special memoryAll unconfirmed transactions are added to it. This is called Membouls.

When it is overloaded, confirmation time is increased. Mainers choose nodes where the highest remuneration is offered. Therefore, commission's size affects the speed of processing the operation.

Transactions in Bitcoin Blockchain Mempula

Detailed explanation - Membouls, this is the base of all transactions, who expect confirmation.

As soon as a new transaction is performed on the network, 10 minutes required for its confirmation (time between the creation of new blocks). But depending on the number of operations, this term can expand significantly.

Over the past 6 months, problems in the membrane Bitcoin appeared constantly. This is exactly what affects the speed of transactions.

Any newcomer will quickly understand what the membrane is. All new operations with the BTC first receive network approval, and then enter the membol, where they expect confirmation from miners.

As soon as miners include it in the next block, the translation receives the first confirmation (some transactions require multiple confirmation).

Each node in the blockchain network has its own membrane. Its size is configured individually. If the operation is carried out, then the data on unconfirmed translation is deleted.

As a rule, miners are primarily chosen by those transactions where an increased commission has been established. In addition to the remuneration for blocks, they receive part of the commission, therefore, when you exhibit an increased commission, your operations are more quickly treated.

Membula size Bitcoin

On the host nodes, a different amount of memory for storing unconfirmed translations is installed. Therefore, each of them has its own operational processing algorithm.

When the memory is filled in almost the maximum, the minimum threshold of the commission is established. Further, everything is simple, applications with a suitable commission are processed faster, and all other transactions are simply deflected.

Refers membol to BIP 35, with its help "Light" wallets carry out transactions. At the same time, the Mempul himself is one of the main problems of the whole bitcoin network.

Not always, users are satisfied with how quickly their translations are processed. And I do not want to wait for your confirmation clock or pay an increased commission.

Where to check the membrane Bitcoin online?

There are many resources where the schedule of the load of non-confirmed transactions is published. You can see it on the site, exposing different segments of time - Membouls Bitcoin for the last month, year, week, day:

Professionals are followed by this indicator, because at the moments of the recession of the load, you can put the minimum commission and hope for quick confirmation of the transaction.

Through the same service, only you can see the total number of unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions:

The first chart shows a schedule of loading in bytes. Considering the fact that in each block of blocknabitcoin 1 MB. information can be divided by 1000 indicators and get a value in blocks. For example, in this moment The membulant is loaded by almost 40,000 blocks.

Simple words, memboull is a set of transactions that have not yet been conducted and expect confirmation.. In any pool, accumulation of operations can occur, which will lead to the delays of their execution.

As a rule, the Bitcoin Membouls does not contain too much information, but the influx of data can be sharp.

This creates problems for users. Despite the ability to speed up translations, no one increases the commission. The speed of processing operations may decrease for various reasons, and this is delayed by the transaction time for a longer period.

Increasingly, the flow of new translations exceeds the figure with which miners cope.

Overload starts from the moment when less than 1 MB of memory in the membolus remains. If this happens, the confirmation waiting time increases by the amount of mined blocks.

For example, if the size of the pool is 20 MB, then the transaction with a small commission will receive a confirmation, only after each 20th block.

Who needs to quickly spend a transaction, you will have to pay an increased commission, there is no other way. Bitcoin developers have already tried to increase the volume of megabytes in each block, it led to the appearance of BitcoINCASH (there are 8 MB blocks).

In the meantime, the problem of the MEMPUL's load remains relevant, and transactions with a large commission will definitely be priority.

Memoral Etherium

There is nothing to tell about it, because the principles here are exactly the same. Now there is no serious workload on this cryptocurrency, the operations pass quickly, even if you exhibit the minimum commission.

If you are interested to see the Ethereum membol, go. The maximum value on the chart was given an indicator of 20,000 non-confirmed transactions, but the situation quickly changed.

The permanent expansion of the Bitcoin network and an increase in the audience of users leads to serious blocks of blockchas. It is more difficult to wait for transactions when a big commission is not exhibited.

Try to see the Mempole Bitcoin before performing the operation, it is desirable to choose the moments when it is less loaded, otherwise without a big commission will have to wait long to wait for the translation.

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In the past few days, the Bitcoin network from different sides fell simultaneously several misstain. Separately, such events happened before, but now all the factors have connected together. It seems that some mysterious, but powerful force exposes bitcoin heavy and sophisticated tests in order to check whether he is suitable for the role of world payment system?

Even if no invisible hand exists, such a stress test will be useful for both Bitcoin developers, and for the entire community. After all, it is precisely such situations that show a real margin of strength and reveal deficiencies. Let's see how events developed.

1. Back in late June, in connection with, "bank holidays" and even for the Greeks, activity in the Bitcoin network has increased. Many people became interested in cryptocurrent, as independent of state control means of preserving their savings during financial instability. These events themselves are rather useful for Bitcoine, but now created an additional burden.

2. Discussions on the insufficient limitation of the size of the block in 1 MB have long been shludred, with variable success and even conflicts, but two weeks ago, finally, it was about increasing the limit to 8MB in early 2016.

3. June 23 of the exchange coinwallet.eu to all that changing the size of the block is really necessary. She succeeded, but an extremely practical method of proof arranged a fair cross in the community. Moreover, the company warned that he would hold the second stage of "testing".

4. On July 4, critical main mining pools arose caused by the transition to compulsory compliance with BIP66 - changes in the Bitcoin protocol to the blocks of version 3 (v3). As a result, the network was divided into two actually equal branches for some time and a separation and loss (for miners) of two chains in 6 and 3 blocks, respectively, occurred. To date, almost all pools moved to the blocks of a third version, except for the two largest - F2Pool (former Discus Fish) and Antpool. Therefore, "alarming" status in the network is still not canceled and splitting the blockchain is still possible.

5. But the most interesting thing began on July 7 - someone launched an attack on the network "Spam transactions" - that is, the generation of a huge number of small transactions, which completely scored all new blocks. At the moment, it is not known who, for what purpose, conducts this attack. Despite the public accessibility of the blockchain, the anonymity of Bitcoin does not precisely establish the origin of these transactions. About 400 related addresses are now found, which continuously transmit each other 1000 Satoshi (0.00001 BTC), paying to the commission, therefore, the attack costs its initiator is not suiced. Here is one of these addresses, and follow the chain, you can find the rest.

What's happening?

We will try to describe the situation at the moment. Yesterday she began to quickly grow by unconfirmed transactions. Previously, it extremely rarely exceeded 10,000, now according to blockchain.info constantly holds above 20,000:

The total size of all unconfirmed transactions is almost 22 megabytes, that is, it takes an average of 22 for their dispatch. full blockBut transactions continue to constantly arrive. Therefore, the size of the queue is almost no change. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that there are quite a lot of "empty" blocks that contain only 1-2 transactions. Each block includes a minimum of one transaction - miners get mined coins. Does this happen for technical reasons or from the desire of the pool owners faster to get the block is unknown. Each empty block moves the queue for another 10 minutes.

The effects of attack are clearly visible in some charts on blockchain.info:

You can see that in the last two days they have sharply increased both the number of transactions in the block and the average block size, it is already dangerous approaching the maximum value of 1 MB. Thus, this second stress test once again convincingly proves the need to increase the limit.

In addition to major troubles, there were smaller. In particular, about 21:00 MSK for some time "hung" one of the main information resources About Bitcoin - BlockChain.info.

It happened due to the two blocks that Block Explorer could not read - and from F2Pool, which, however, passed to the main block. The service now works, but still does not show the transactions from these two blocks.

What will happen next?

The attack, obviously, will soon end. If the attacker is not Satoshu himself, with its million batcounts, resources to continue the attack will soon be depleted, since when the queue occurs, the network clients automatically increase the commission's size required for quick passage. Therefore, for an effective attack, the attacking also has to increase payments to Mainers.

When the attack ends - now we cannot say. But we hope that the mysterious "tester" will declare themselves and explain the motives of their actions. Perhaps this will cause the acceleration of the release of a patch that increases maximum size Block - the problem is now obvious to all.

As for the incompatibility of the versions of the blocks and the possible split chain - it is not so acute, but it may be more serious. Most pools after the warning of the developers updated their wallets, but the two largest Chinese pool, together with up to 40% of the entire power, have not yet been updated and is unknown when they do it. Such behavior can cause not only the technical problems with which the network is relatively easy to cope, but also strikes Bitcoin reputation. Obviously, the mechanisms of network self-regulation are not too effective against large miners. You can only not pay attention to them - by reducing security or increase the number of confirmations.

Despite all the complexity described above and slowing down the passage of many transactions, the Bitcoin network continues to work, and this is the main thing. Cryptovaya showed that it can withstand quite serious attacks, although many technical aspects need serious refinement.

However, not only free decentralized systems suffer from technical deficiencies. Ironically, it was today because of the technical failure for several hours, one of the largest shopping areas of the world has stopped work - the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). According to media reports, the reason was the unsuccessful update of some systems. No one in the world is insured against such troubles.

Bitcoin Network - the largest and stable distributed computer network in the world. This is evidenced by the indicators of the computational power of the system that recently over 1 zetaflops (millions of petaflops), which eight times the total capacity of all supercomputers of the world is.

Despite such an impressive computational performance, Bitcoin was recently excluded from the list of distributed computer projects. Formally reason noah became that the power of the network is impossible to adequately evaluate after the appearance of special Bitkin ASICs, which do not perform floating semicolute operations.

However, it is possible to calculate how other supercomputers or network projects are potentially effective in mingle of bitcoins (supercomputers, for example, have the ability to carry out the integer operations used in hashing).

So, the fastest supercomputer, Chinese Tianhe-2, has a performance indicator of 33.86 Petaflops / sec, which is approximately 0.001% of the Bitcoin network power.

Monitoring the status of the network

As Bitcoin is improving and developing, more and more actively competing with various retail payments, such as Visa and MasterCard, as well as with global payment services like SWIFT uninterrupted functioning of the decentralized network becomes the first necessary condition for its viability.

Bitcoin's official website Bitcoin.org has done a great job, summarizing the archives of all warnings about the danger and network failures.

The final report gives an idea of \u200b\u200ball critical observations of the work and state of the distributed network of Bitcoin, including indicators of availability, extensibility, safety and transaction speeds for different time intervals.

What other metrics can be useful if we set out to evaluate the health and strength of the Bitcoin network? We have collected together the 12 most significant indicators.

The Bitnodes project can help in determining the size of the base bitkin-network, as it detects all the working "full nodes" of the network. The search is carried out by the following method: Message getaddr. It is sent to recursively to establish communication with all available nodes in the list, starting from the initial. The system produces this rollback every 24 hours and displays the results on the world map, along with ratings and data on the version of the Bitcoin client.

The Bitnodes project was launched in April 2013 with the support of Bitcoin Foundation as an information sponsor. The last report on the available nodes in the Bitkin network can be seen.

1. Data replication

The exchange of information in the Bitcoin network does not occur instantly. But how fast is the Bitcoan transaction information? The data replication scale created by BitCoinStats shows how quickly the transaction reaches 50 percent of all participants in the peer's network (i.e. how much time has passed since the transaction or block hit the network and the moment when most network nodes received this update). Now this indicator fluctuates in the area of \u200b\u200b3.9-6 seconds.

1. Lists of starting servers

Imagine that you first launch a bitcoin client. How do you learn with whom to connect? Lists of known network nodes (starting servers) use all Bitkin-clients to determine the working nodes on the network with which the client will establish a connection when starting work. Lists of well-known nodes support and distribute volunteers using various methods in order for the hosts for the first time to networks, the nodes have received a clear idea of \u200b\u200bworking currently in the network of pear.

Lists provide only information connected to the network and available nodes. Metric of their availability, also p acting BitCoinStats, reflects the results of attempts to connect to nodes contained in various bootstrap lists. It shows how easy it is to connect to the network a new node, which has never done no earlier.The closer to 100%, the greater the chance that it will work the first time.

An additional scale demonstrates the system reaction rate to the provision of lists of available nodes, measured in Miliseconds (time that has passed since the request to receive a response).

This series of graphs designed by the developer Peter Wuile displays the "Horseship complexity", demonstrating the number of the therahet per second, which the network generates for different time intervals (1 terrahet is 1,000 gigah speakers).

The complexity of hashing reflects how difficult it is to find new block Compared with the initial complexity with which the genesis unit was released (the initial complexity is taken per unit). The complexity indicator is automatically revised every 2,016 blocks (approximately every 2 weeks) and right now it is 35 billion times higher than the complexity with which it was originally Mainic Satoshi.

This circular chart from Organi Incorti estimates the distribution of hash activity between the largest mining pools with a time interval per week. This indicator is important, since the integrity of the network depends on the individual source of the mining power to control the constantly more than 50% of hashing activity.

The table of the found hash reflects all statistical indicators that can be learned from the number of blocks found by the user in one week. The authorship of the blocks, as a rule, is interpreted according to the original source, for example, according to the site on the site of a particular mining pool, which announced the find, sometimes on indirect data, such as SOINBASE signatures or well-known open keys.

The data collected from indirect sources may be unreliable and not to take into account individual blocks, the completion of which miners preferred to be kept secret, which will undoubtedly affect the statistical indicators of the level of hashing activity.

The bitcoine protocol is designed to ensure that the miners follow the rules laid down in the concept of the program: as soon as a new block was detected, all participants in the network should be notified.

Ego-miners do not fulfill this prescription: when they find the block, they save this fact in secret and begin to search for new ... when the blocks in the chain becomes somewhat, they reveal the cards, finding blocks that, as others believed, are still wanted .

The less believable time indicators that demonstrate the leaders of the miners list before blocking the blocks, the greater the likelihood that they use the Selfish Mining Strategy. Currently, the metric suggests that the probability of 94% of ego-mining does not occur.

Coinometrics explains the principles of its metric:

"The only way to determine the likelihood of using this strategy is to measure the time intervals between the discovery of new blocks and relate with the average expected indicator. The speed of detection of new blocks is determined by how quickly Mainer looks for hash, given the complex initial protocol data. Each attempt to identify the hash has a certain degree of probability of successful permission. By definition, the degree of probability does not depend on the particular block. As a result, the speed of generating new blocks should follow exponential progression.

Blocks hung - these are valid blocks that are not part of the main blockchain. They may appear naturally, for example, if two Mainers have completed the same block at the same time, or arose as a result of a hacker attack if a hacker with knowledge in hashing is trying to reverse transactions.

The blockchain supports a constantly updated list of transactions that wait will not wait to be issued in a new block. The control system displays the total number of unconfirmed transactions, including the number of bitcoins and the volume of these transactions, measured in kilobytes.

This schedule reflects the average time in minutes, which goes on to turn on the transaction into the block. Temporary indicators can fluctuate in reasonable limits, depending on the time required for the validation of the transaction, and the degree of risk depends on the value of the transaction in the Bitkens.

11. Total blockchalter

The total volume of the block is important for the reason that efficient work Network It is important that the volume of disk space for storing information has not exceeded reasonable limits. And, moreover, the size of the blockchain affects the synchronization speed after establishing new version Bitcoin client. This measurement method helps to determine the true size of the blockchain, including heders and transactions, but excluding an index database.

12. Standard block size

Bitcoin transaction - This is the transfer of data to general Network and display them in blocks. The block includes not alone, but many transactions that expect their confirmation.

What is transactions in the Bitcoin network?

Information on batcinic operations is recorded in special blocks that represent a transaction list. If you fold the blocks into the chain, you will get the history of "walking" cryptocurrency.

The block consists of a header and a list of transactions. The header contains hash transaction codes, own and hash of the previous block . The first in the list there is a transaction in which remuneration (commission) is indicated for creating a new block.

To verify the authenticity of operations with cryptocurrencyTransactions must be validated in the blockchain. It is a distributed database. Its parts are stored on a variety of computers on the Bitcoin network.

Confirmation of a transaction is its access to the list of transactions in the block.

After the operation with the cryptocurrency account on the side of the sender and the recipient is not updated immediately. In traditional user applications, six blocks should be found to confirm the transaction, which prove its validity.

At the same time, the user conducting the operation can reduce the number of inspections. This should be done if you operate with a small amount of bitcoins. What simplifies and speeds up the process of confirming the transaction.

If the verification of the translation of the cryptodeg did not occur, the system returns tools back to the sender's wallet.

What is 3 confirmation in the Bitcoin system?

How to get confirmation?

To reduce the likelihood of dual use of funds, any transaction must receive a certain amount of confirmation (requirement of the BitcoIN system). Various online services set your confirmation threshold.

To receive confirmations, the owner of the wallet does not need to do anything. The COIN system automatically generates confirmation within some time.. This process takes from 5 to 30 minutes, in rare cases several hours.

Transaction time in Bitcoin blockchain

On average, the transaction leaves from 20 minutes to 60 minutes, but at the moments of the peak load this time can be increased many times.

To make a translation, it is necessary that the transaction is verified in 6 blocks . If this does not happen, the cryptogenics will not reach the final recipient. Accordingly, the time of sending finances depends on the speed of confirmation.

The site blockchain.info is unstable, and the queue for transfers steadily continues to grow. At such a speed, even without adding new transactions to process an existing queue, you will need more than 8-10 hours: https://blockchain.info/enconfirmed-transactions

The waiting time depends on the loading of the blockchain. Over the past two years, the number of operations with bitcoins has increased more than 8 times.

In general, the holders of bitcoins should be counting on time from 2-3 hours to 2 days.

Translation processing time may increase in the following cases:

1. Excessive load capacity with sharp fluctuations in bitcoin courses;
2. Low transaction priority (frequent transfers of small amounts);
3. Low Commission.

It can be seen on the chart below:

It shows the increase in the number of trillion haze, performed per second on the Bitcoin network. There are also bursts on the network, when the average number of transactions in blocks increases, and the size of the blocks increases to a critical value.

Methods for reducing the transaction time:

1. Increased commission for miners - Specialists advise "not greeding" and give for confirmation from 0.0002 VTS and more.
2. Volume of translated funds - The more cryptocurrency translate, the fact the status of the operation is higher in the "cryptoseti".
3. Use of specialized sites Like coinbase.com - on such services, buyers and sellers retain their keys. Thanks to this, confirmation occurs within this platform, and not in the common network.

How to check bitcoin transaction?

You can track your bitcoin transaction using public services (not required):

To find out how many confirmations of the network passed on a specific transaction, go to the BlockChain.info or chain.so site and enter in search string Knowing you hash surgery. After that, all information about the block and its current status will be displayed.

At the moment, 2 confirmations

Confirmed and unconfirmed transactions

The transaction is included in the block of the found unit is called a transaction confirmation. Inclusion in 1 block \u003d 1 Confirmation when such evidence is recruited 6 and above the transaction is considered confirmed. Such a function was introduced to protect against repeated spending of the same bitcoins.

The classic Bitcoin client will display a transaction as "unconfirmed" until 6 confirmations (6 found blocks). Sites or services that accept Bitcoin to pay for their products or services can put their limitations on the number of blocks of necessary to confirm the transaction.

The figure 6 was not chosen by chance: it is based on the theory that the likelihood that the attacker will be able to accumulate more than 10% of the network Hesrayite for fake transactions, small, and that a slight risk (less than 0.1%) is acceptable.

If the translation did not exercise within 20-30 minutes, you should not panic. With a large network load in recent days, even transactions with a high commission can be processed longer than normal. Also, you should not worry about the safety of your funds - if the transaction is not included in the block, the bitcoins will return to your timeout wallet (usually 72 hours).

Do you want to at least justify how much the translation will be performed? To do this, you will need to know the hash operation. If you remember the commission, which was set when translated, immediately go to step 4.

• First you need to find out the size of the Commission for the transaction. This can be done on one of the public services. We go to blockchain.info, enter the hash in the search field, and click on the transaction.

Open translation details

• We look at the Count "Panel for Byte" - this will be the value you need.

High Commission - The Pledge of the Fast Transaction

We learn confirmation time - BTC.com

In addition, on these sites, you can find out the recommended value of the Commission - this will be useful in the following translations.

1. Remember:

the amount of the commission depends not on the amount, but on the size of the transaction in bytes

1. Thus, in the figure above, when translating the 3.3 BTC, the byte fee is 372 Satoshi, and the transaction size is 191 bytes. Therefore, the General Commission for the translation in this case is 372 x 191 \u003d 71052 Satoshi, or about $ 11 (when the Bitcoin's course is 15,500 dollars per BTC).

How to speed up Bitcoin transaction?

Consider several ways to use the system blockchain in "high-speed mode":

1. Use of centralized services with a separate transaction system . There are resources offering the services of creating and using Bitcoin-wallets, which carry out the transactions of the digital currency between their customers without using the blockchain ecosystem. Similar services I offer your customers instantaneous transactions, but only if the currency translation occurs within the system. One of these services - coinbase. It has a separate transaction system separate from the blockchain, thanks to which the translations can be translated almost instantly.
2. Use multiplying To speed up the confirmation of the transaction in the Bitcoin system. Some companies, such as GreenAddress, besides the standard transaction signature, provided by the system, put their multiplying as confirmation of the reliability of the translation. The blockchain system considers such transactions as reliable and they are rapidly accepted into the generated block. In addition, the use of multi-cylinda technology increases the safety of cryptocurrency transactions.
3. Using open transactions and trust servers . The bottom line is that an open transaction when there is all information about the sending and receiving parties, the system confirmation is obtained faster by making data into the generated block. But few use open bitcoin transactions, since this contradicts the very idea of \u200b\u200busing a digital currency, namely, the anonymity of remittances.

Acceleration of translation using the OPT-in Replace-BY-FEE function

The easiest way to force your transaction to jump over is to use the option called OPT-INREPLACE-BY-FEE (OPT-INRBF). With it, you can re-send the same transaction, but with a higher commission.

Without this function, when the transaction on the network is sent re-with an increased commission, the network rejects a new transaction. Bitcoin nodes usually attribute a new transaction to double spending and therefore do not accept or delay it.

However, sending a transaction using OPT-INRBF, you are essentially reporting networks about the possibility of re-sending this transaction later, but with a higher commission. As a result, most bitcoin nodes take a new transaction instead of the old; Thus, the new transaction jumps over.

Does your transaction turn on in the next block, depends onWhat Mainer will achieve a new block: not all miners use OPT-INRBF. Anyway, this option supports a sufficient amount of miners so that your transaction is turned on in the following several blocks.

Currently, OPT-INRBF feature support at least two wallets: Electrum and Greenaddress. In Bitcoin Core, it is supported when processing transactions, however, it is possible to create its own RBF transactions only with third-party scripts. Depending on the wallet, you will need an OPT-INRBF update in the menu settings before sending (first) transaction.

Commissions for transactions in the Bitcoin network

The feature of the Bitcoin system is the fact that the user may at its discretion set the amount of the Commission . But from this value directly depends on the duration of the translation. The more its amount, the higher the priority level of the corresponding operation and less time is required to receive confirmation from the system.

In the Bitcoin blockchain, transaction validation with a large amount of remuneration to the Majnera network of Bitcoin is the first. In some cases, if you have greatly saved, the confirmation procedure may take several days.

What commission to put that the transaction does not depend on - Table!

The size of the commission does not depend on the transaction amount, and depends only on the size of the transaction in bytes. Transaction This is essentially a script that occupies a certain place in bytes, and its miners are the harder to process than it is greater.

Below is the Table of Prioritization Turning on the Transaction in the block. The recommended commission is predicted, taking into account the load of the Bitcoin network to quickly confirm your transaction.

Last column in the table Shows the forecast of the payment of payment with the transaction commission corresponding to this line in the time confirmation interval from 0 to 25 minutes.

The Bitcoin space is very large, and sometimes much of our eyes is hidden from what is happening on the network. Fortunately for cryptocurrency adherents, there are many monitoring tools that track the statistics of the Bitcoin network and displays real information. Some participants in the cryptocurrency community are even trying to use this statistics to draw out their own forecasts.

In this article we will discuss several sites offering statistical information about the Bitcoin network. Many of these online tools are useful for tracking and drawing up graphs of daily changes of the protocols, and also give us an idea of \u200b\u200bthe behavior of cryptocurrency. This includes various blockchain observers, knot counters and many other interesting analytical tools that help us look at Bitcoin ecosystem in a new way.

Blovers blockchas

Blovers blockchas help users of Bitcoin identify all transactions that occurred on the network since the occurrence of a distributed cryptocurrency registry. First, such observers were very small, but as the Bitcoin network grows, their number increased.

To date, the oldest Blovert of the blockchain. Users can enter the Bitcoin address and view its contents, transaction identifiers, and also get an idea of \u200b\u200ball transactions on the network. The site contains data on the commissions paid for the transaction, the block height, which includes a transaction, the number of confirmation and many other things.

In addition, the site is represented great amount statistical data and graphs. You have information about the block, mining, cryptocurrency statistics and various actions on the network. Information about the price of Bitcoin and the average size of the block is in the greatest demand, as well as the transaction membrane and size.

Oxt

Another interesting blockchain browser is the site called Oxt (Open Exploration Tool), which is a research tool for the analysis of the blockchain. Similar to other blockchain observers, OXT can display transactions in the Bitcoin network. In addition, the site analyzes various types of behavior in the Bitcoin blockchain using graphs and tools to display the trajectory. This includes temporary graphics reflecting commissions, transactions, scripts and much more. In addition, the OXT Arsenal has scattering schedules that provide a new look at the behavior of transactions and Bitcoin addresses.

Other popular browsers belong to BlockCypher, Insight, Blocktrail and Sochain. Each browser demonstrates the data of the blockchain a little in its own way, however, in general, information about transactions is the same.

Schedule statistics network

Statoshi.info.

The site Statoshi.info presents the statistics of the Bitcoin network in real time. On the site information panels there are subscribers of network nodes, use bandwidth, Evaluation of commissions for transactions, system performance metrics, memory pools information and much more. The site has been there for several years, each information panel displays various graphs that analyze certain sections of the network behavior and protocol.

Another graphic site that exists is already long enough. Price schedules presented on the site are very popular among network users. BitcoinWisdom price charts reflect the cost of cryptocurrencies on various exchanges, such as Bitstamp, BTCC, KRAKEN and BITFINEX.

BitcoINWISDOM demonstrates other statistical data, such as network complexity or past and current hashrai.

Another site containing Bitcoin's statistics is called. The attention of users is offered many charts displaying the last and current statistical information about Bitcoin. The site interface contains membuli meter, mined blocks, transactions and many other useful network charts. TradeBlock also monitors the Ethereum blockchain and has its own browsers.

"Track Bitcoin" is possible with the help of the site. This tool demonstrates the visual interpretation of network transactions, as well as transaction connections with individual addresses. The site tracks the origin of Bitcoin and follows it by way with the help of a blockchard using visual diagrams.

Network information

Node Counter.

Node Counter is an analytical website, tracking bitcoin network nodes. Here are represented graphic images nodes Bitcoin Core, Classic and Unlimited (BU). Each table demonstrates different network nodes, as well as pools that reported the support of alternative Bitcoin customers and proposals for changing the block size. Information on Nodecounter is represented as linear graphs and circular diagrams.

Founded by a startup 21 Inc, the site is also often used to explore various graphs and tables displaying the behavior of the Bitcoin network nodes. The site presents a network of network, as well as a search tool for checking the state of nodes. Bitnodes displays nodes to clients Bitcoin Core, Classic and Unlimited (BU).

Coin Dance

Another very useful tool Wears a name. It demonstrates users to various analyzes and graphs related to nodes on the network. Graphic interface It also contains the implementation of different nodes with different types of graphs. COINDANCE is also popular with other submitted data, such as trading in LocalBitcoins and Paxful, or even graphics reflecting the views of the well-known industry companies regarding the support of Segregated Witness, Emergent Consensus and UASF (BIP 148).

Visualization gives a new look at the Bitcoin Network

All these monitoring sites offer us another look at the network, and each of them, depending on the goal, has their own advantages. The information that is provided with the tools data can improve our network relationships by providing a better understanding of what is happening. In some cases, the graphical mapping is the best method of interpreting the functioning of the network and behavior of the protocols.