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About Timechain Graph

What is Timechain Graph?

Timechain Graph draws the whole Bitcoin blockchain as a live, interactive graph in your browser — every significant wallet a node, every transaction a bond, the full public ledger visible without an account or login. It is free, open source, and funded only by donations.

Is it really free — no account, no paywall?

Yes. Every tier, every view, every block — free forever. The source is open on GitHub (MIT). The only thing keeping it lit is people who find it useful sending a few sats on the donate page.

Where does the chain data come from?

From a self-hosted Bitcoin full node (bitcoind) that the operator runs and reads directly over JSON-RPC. No third-party block explorer, no Electrum, no commercial indexer. The raw chain is reduced offline with DuckDB and shipped as a static Parquet bundle from a CDN the operator controls. See Docs for the full five-plane pipeline.

How current is the data?

The dataset is a periodic snapshot rebuilt by the operator after each epoch — roughly weekly for early releases, more frequently as the pipeline matures. It shows the historical structure of the chain, not real-time mempool activity.

Privacy & data collection

What personal data do you collect about visitors?

None. There is no analytics, no tag manager, no cookie banner, no login, and no form that captures personal data. The only footprint your visit leaves is standard CDN-layer server logs (IP + request path) — the same as loading any static website, and beyond our control. We never link that to an identity.

Are there cookies or trackers?

No cookies are set. No pixels, beacons, or fingerprint scripts run. No data is sent to any analytics or advertising network. If you see anything different in your browser, that is a bug — please file a report.

How can I verify that?

Open DevTools (F12), go to the Network tab, and reload. Every request should target timechaingraph.com only. A CI gate on every build scans the compiled output for forbidden third-party domains and fails the build if any leak in — it is an enforced architecture invariant, not a policy statement. Read more under Docs → Verify it yourself.

Is Timechain Graph GDPR compliant?

Because no personal data is collected, stored, or processed, the GDPR's consent, data-subject rights, and controller-registration obligations do not arise — there is nothing to consent to and no data to delete or export. If you believe this analysis is wrong, please reach us at [email protected].

Bitcoin basics

New to Bitcoin? Here are the concepts that make the most sense of what you are looking at.

What is the Bitcoin blockchain?

A public, append-only ledger of every Bitcoin transaction ever made, stored as a chain of cryptographically linked blocks. Each block is sealed roughly every ten minutes by a miner who solves a proof-of-work puzzle. No single party controls it; anyone with a full node can verify the whole history independently. Satoshi Nakamoto called it the "timechain"— a chain of timestamped proofs. That name is this project's.

What is a Bitcoin halving?

Every 210,000 blocks (roughly four years) the reward miners receive for finding a block is cut in half. At launch in 2009 it was 50 BTC per block; after four halvings it now stands at 3.125 BTC. The hard cap of 21 million bitcoin is enforced entirely by this schedule — the final satoshi will be issued around the year 2140.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

The pseudonymous individual or group who published the Bitcoin whitepaper on 31 October 2008 and launched the network on 3 January 2009. Satoshi mined roughly one million BTC in the earliest days and disappeared from public view in late 2010. Their identity has never been confirmed. The wallets associated with those early blocks are visible here — they have never moved.

How many Bitcoin wallets exist?

There is no single authoritative count. Hundreds of millions of addresses have ever received bitcoin, but most are dust, one-time-use, or long spent. The most economically significant cohort — wallets that received at least 1 BTC or made 100+ transactions — numbers in the low millions. That is the threshold for the Max tier this tool renders.

Can blockchain analysis identify me from my wallet?

A Bitcoin address is not a name. The ledger records public keys and amounts — not identities. However, address reuse, UTXO-set heuristics, and cross-referencing with exchange KYC records can sometimes de-anonymise a wallet. Using a fresh address per transaction, running your own node, and not broadcasting your addresses to third parties all help preserve on-chain privacy.

Still have a question?

Reach us at [email protected] or open an issue on GitHub. Technical detail about the pipeline and privacy model lives in Docs.