2.0.3
Bitcoin becomes the system's 22nd app and its first about a chain rather than a market: price, network state, live fees and the last 12 blocks. The site also moves to a single, consistent hosting platform.
6 changes in this release
Highlights
Apps changed
- 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.
This release, measured
45 impact points across 5 layers
How this is measured- InfrastructureReachReach: 3 of 5DepthDepth: 4 of 5NewnessNewness: 3 of 510 / 15
- Data & IntegrationsReachReach: 3 of 5DepthDepth: 4 of 5NewnessNewness: 4 of 511 / 15
- VisualReachReach: 2 of 5DepthDepth: 2 of 5NewnessNewness: 2 of 56 / 15
- Content & SEOReachReach: 2 of 5DepthDepth: 2 of 5NewnessNewness: 1 of 55 / 15
- LogicReachReach: 4 of 5DepthDepth: 4 of 5NewnessNewness: 5 of 513 / 15
The Bitcoin app ships alongside a simplified hosting setup that applies the same browser protections consistently across the site.
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 mining pool that found each one where it could be attributed, 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.
Improved2
- Bitcoin data requests are consolidated so multiple views can share fresh network data without duplicating work.
- The hosting setup is simplified so the site's browser protections apply consistently across pages and static responses.
Full release notes
Bitcoin becomes its own app, combining price and dominance with live network state, fees and recent blocks. The site also moves to one hosting path so pages and static assets receive the same browser protections.