Background
The Map
of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin runs on real machines in real places — miners, nodes, whole industries — spread unevenly across the world. The ledger records what happened, but never where. Timechain Map draws that missing layer: the network as a geography, scrubbable through the chain's history.
It's the third view in a family. The force-directed Graph shows who transacts with whom; the Grid lays every minted coin on a fixed lattice; the Map puts the network on the globe. Same chain, three lenses.
Graph and Grid read Bitcoin's own ledger from a self-hosted node. The Map adds the one thing the chain doesn't encode — location — drawn from public network-measurement data, compiled into static snapshots served from a CDN we control. Your viewer still touches no third party at runtime; verify it in DevTools.
No coin. No token. No funding round. If you find it useful, fund the project. If you don't, it's still free.
Who it's for
- Bitcoiners — see where the network you trust actually lives, and how that map has shifted halving by halving.
- Researchers — the geographic distribution of mining and nodes over time, from transparent, cited sources.
- Educators — show Bitcoin's global footprint as a single scrubbable surface.
- Privacy advocates — verify zero third-party requests, end of session.