I have built this: https://visualizebitcoin.org

Visualize Bitcoin is Bitcoin explained as a live 3D machine. Every key concept of the protocol is a moving part in it, running on live network data: you watch the thing work instead of reading about it. Nothing on it is a metaphor. There is a guided tour with a narrator who speaks 14 languages, and at the end you can ask him about the machine in front of you.

Some of you have already seen it. It got picked up here first, by one of you, and Bitcoin Info carried it on X. That was the first real wave of visitors this thing ever had, so thanks for that.

What I pushed since is a wall in the hall, and it is the fun way to actually handle the Lightning Network instead of reading about it. You paint pixels on it, and you pay for them in sats. The smallest thing you can buy costs one sat, which is low enough to be somebody's first Lightning invoice ever. There is a page next to it written for exactly that person.

I am not going to explain the rest of it here. Go poke at it.

The site is not finished either. Right now the machine is something you get shown. It is going to get a lot bigger, and way more open!

The machine itself stays free and always will. I will find ways to fund the work, and none of them will be charging you for it. The point of this is to share what I know about Bitcoin, and building it makes me go deeper down the rabbit hole and end up seeing it as one whole revolutionary thing instead of a pile of separate concepts.

If you send it to someone who does not get Bitcoin yet, tell me where they stall. That is the feedback I can act on.

T°te