2.0.3
Every market app here reached Bitcoin as one row in a table of thousands, and none of the providers behind them reports a single figure about the network under it: not the tip height, not what a transaction costs to send, not how far the difficulty period has run. Bitcoin is the 22nd app and the first one about a chain rather than a market, with four screens: price and dominance, the network as a clock, live fees against the queue they buy a place in, and the last twelve blocks. The chain figures come from mempool.space, which asks for no key, through one route that holds the shared rate budget for every visitor. This build also moves the deployment off Cloudflare Workers: the app is served from Vercel’s edge network from 2.0.3 onward.
7 changes in this release
Highlights
- 01
Bitcoin gets a window, not a row
Ranked by price is the only question a market table asks, and it is the wrong one for the single asset whose network state is the story: a fee market that reprices every ten minutes, a difficulty period that self-corrects every fortnight, an issuance schedule that halves every four years. Four screens carry it instead: market cap, dominance and the distance below its own high; the tip height, hashrate and difficulty; five fee tiers against the next four blocks as the mempool would build them; and the last twelve blocks with the fees each one collected beside the subsidy it was paid. Nothing in the app signs and nothing reads a wallet, which is what holds it at the no-wallet tier the site publishes.
- 02
A halving dated from the block time the chain is running at
A halving countdown is usually arithmetic on ten minutes a block, which is the target the network aims at rather than the rate it is achieving. The 210,000 block interval is fixed by consensus; the time between blocks is not. This one takes the mean the current difficulty period has actually observed, and a period running at nine and a half minutes a block brings a halving four years out forward by more than a month. The same figure dates the 2016 block retarget, so the two countdowns on the Network tab cannot disagree about how fast the chain is moving.
Everything in this release
New4
- Bitcoin is the 22nd app, in Finance, with four destinations in the order the questions get asked: what it is worth, what the network is doing, what it costs to use, and what just happened.
- Fees lists five tiers, from the block being mined now down to the floor a node will relay, priced in satoshis per virtual byte. Under them sit the next four blocks as the mempool would build them, which is what says whether next block is a rounding error above an hour or four times it, and a calculator turns a tier into satoshis and dollars for a transaction of a given size.
- Blocks shows the last twelve, newest first, with the pool that found each one where mempool.space could attribute it, and the fees it collected reported separately from the subsidy it was paid.
- Network reports the tip height, the three day mean hashrate and the current difficulty, with the projected change at the next retarget shown as a percent rather than a raw difficulty number.
Improved3
- Every Bitcoin request goes through one route on this app’s server rather than from each open window. mempool.space rate limits by address and every visitor would share this deployment’s, so a fee tab left open all afternoon is one poll for everyone instead of one per browser.
- The site is served from Vercel’s edge network. It ran on Cloudflare Workers through 2.0.2, where the eight security headers reached only the pages the Worker rendered: every static asset, the manifest and the service worker were served around it and answered with none of them, so a browser whose first request to the site was a stylesheet never received the HTTPS policy at all. Closing that took a rule in the Cloudflare dashboard that no one could see from the repository. All eight now come from the one config file, on every response.
- The reported version is 2.0.3, still codename North Star. It is one new app and one move of where the app is served from; nothing already on screen changed.
Every version of Hexncoin, newest first.