how does bitcoin actually work?
this is the whole system, alive: payments pile into the mempool, nodes check them, two miners race, and the winner's block links onto a chain that runs off the edge of your screen.
// the mempool
click to pinunconfirmed transactions
Every payment is broadcast and waits here as one pixel until a miner picks it. Warmer colours pay a higher fee and get chosen first.
→ open the explainer[ start the journey → ]~15 minutes · nothing here is faked — real sha-256, a real curve, a live mempool
// the route — jump anywhere, it's your machine now