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Listen to Bitcoin
- nelse 14y agoIf I had a child, I would open this site and it will make it sleep for sure ;). PS. Good idea!
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI wish I could turn off the bubble sounds and just get sound for the blocks. I'd leave that on all day.
- kintamanimatt 14y agoHere ya go: http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell1.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell1.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell2.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell2.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell3.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell3.ogg You could write a script to play these randomly!
- codesuela 14y agoThis needs a Satoshi dice version Ka-ching sounds edit: obviously forgot my compliment, very clever idea and cool implementation this digital art right here ladies and gentleman also this gave me an idea: how about a Bitcoin ECG?
- epscylonb 14y agoAnd a whack-whack-oomps for the losses?
- rheide 14y agoVery nicely executed.
- itafroma 14y agoIt says no sound in Safari, but the sound works just fine in Safari 6.0.3. No sound in Mobile Safari on iOS 6.1.3, however.
- hamoid 14y agoBeautiful :) I didn't know people were moving around such large sums. I saw a 3400 bc bubble, and a 2000+ bc bubble floating out there. I wish I was able to distinguish what was going on directly from the sounds. Those huge bubbles sounded exactly like the small ones, and when I saw 50 bubbles appear at once, that also did not sound any different than a single bubble. The amount of simultaneous sounds seems to be limited to a very low number.
- kzrdude 14y agoBitcoin clients usually try to diffuse coin ownership by always sending two amounts with one transaction, one (normally smaller) amount is to the receiver, the second amount is to a new address of the sender. So your coins diffuse out over tons of addresses this way, and the true number of coins transferred between individuals is much less than it appears. It can also be extremely unhelpful, for example to this chap today on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bd1d1/i_think_i_just_lost_90btc_are_they_stolen_help/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bd1d1/i_think_i_ju... Who didn't seem to know about return transactions and seems to have lost 90 BTC on that. (Because he/she used a "secure" live environment that would work with a temporary wallet and just one extra address with his/her money.)
- tocomment 14y agoWow I can't follow that at all! Now I'm scared to ever spend my bitcoins!
- jamoes 14y agoHe only got into that situation because he was using the software in a non-standard way, and he inadvertently deleted the "change-wallet" that had automatically been created for him. As long as you use the software in a relatively standard way and don't ever delete your wallet files, you'll be fine.
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- joelrunyon 14y agoNicely done. What feed/API are you pulling from to track these changes. I've been looking for a solid way to chart bitcoin transactions and haven't been able to find one.
- ponyous 14y agoCheck bottom left corner. I guess mtgox and blockchain streaming api.
- zoba 14y agoWow, this is great! I got to see a block completed and see a 3392.80 BTC transaction go by - both got me excited enough to be amusing to those around me!
- lalos 14y agoWhat's the relationship between a sound (pitch, note, etc) and a transaction value?
- lalos 14y agoafter some digging around the JS, I noticed the sound is completely random except the volume which is based on the quantity of bitcoins var maxBitcoins=1000;var minVolume=0.3;var maxVolume=0.5;var volume=bitcoins/(maxBitcoins/(maxVolume-minVolume))+minVolume;if(volume>maxVolume)volume=maxVolume;Sound.playRandomAtVolume(volume100);
- stickac 14y agoIt's a pity that bubble size is unrelated to the amount of Bitcoins in transaction. Or is it related to the transaction size?
- tudorizer 14y agoStrangely relaxing to listen to money being moved around.
- richardwhiuk 14y agoNice. Bubble size based on (log?) bitcoin size would be good. I wonder how long till bitcoin gets big enough that this sounds like techno ;p
- sliverstorm 14y agoIs this actually representative of all bitcoin transactions?
- AlpineWolf 14y agoOriginal creator here, it plots all the transactions it receives from Blockchain.info. It's more or less pulling from the same recent transaction feed that you get if you go to Blockchain.info's homepage. I'd like to think this includes all transactions on the network :)
- sliverstorm 14y agoI'm surprised, the volume is much lower than I expected.
- ibarrac 14y agoNeeds a volume button.
- felipelalli 14y agoboua!
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- fuyuasha 14y agoJust brilliant!
- iframe 14y agoI wish I could pay my meal with bitcoins :)
- 27182818284 14y agoYou can, depending on your location. http://pizzaforcoins.com/ http://pizzaforcoins.com/ I know you were really trying to be snarky about Bitcoin, but in case you hadn't heard, you can actually do things with them. Also notable are https://wrapbootstrap.com/ https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and Reddit
- md224 14y agoWhere did you get the celesta and swells sample banks from?
- irremediable 14y agoHow do the sounds correspond to activity?
- tomsthumb 14y agoDeeper noise = larger amount, roughly. Larger bubble has some sort (logarithmic?) correlation to size. It's necessarily rough though.
- irremediable 14y agoOh, interesting. Somewhere higher in the comments, people think the pitch is chosen at random and only the volume is controlled by the data.
- metalruler 14y agoDoes this mean that a huge transaction for the right amount will hit the perfect low note, and cause everyone within earshot of listentobitcoin.com to simultaneously crap themselves?
- shocks 14y agoI bet loads of people are moving between wallets just to see theirs right now. :)
- aarongolliver 14y agoIf people are going to do that they should consider donating a bit to his wallet (14zoTKB29NdsJRvk4qP3vB9mQZ3dcV3eWk) It gets highlighted and is really easy to spot
- walid 14y agoI like your optimism in thinking that people who use Bitcoin will fall for that...
- gibybo 14y agoFall for what? It's explained right on the top of the page.
- aarongolliver 14y agoYou can click the link. His address is right there... Copy paste is a hell of a thing.
- walid 14y agoSorry! Misunderstood your comment at first :$
- zapdrive 14y agoThere was 20,000 BTC transaction the other day. I wonder how it would have sounded like.
- eksith 14y agoBig Ben, presumably. This is oddly soothing in an "ew, economics" kinda way. I wouldn't mind letting this run in the background for when there's no wind for my windchime.
- futhey 14y agoAre the pitches based on something? They appear to be totally random.
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- kintamanimatt 14y agoThere are two kinds of sounds, "celesta" for transactions and trades (e.g. http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/celesta/c003.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/celesta/c003.ogg) and string swells for blocks (e.g. http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell2.ogg http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell2.ogg). Looking at the source, you are, however, correct, that the pitches are selected at random.
- dmd 14y agoI'm seeing one transaction every 30-60 seconds, which seems wrong to me.
- redthrowaway 14y agoSeems to be going fine now. I imagine the transactions are just pretty sporadic. Either that, or it momentarily lost the connection with Mt. Gox and blockchain.info.
- blhack 14y agoWhat on earth are people spending this much bitcoin on? I see a multiple $100000 transaction on my screen.
- fourstar 14y agoProbably something to do with the Silk Road.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat's a lot of weed.
- jychang 14y agoChanging between wallets doesn't mean that the money is actually changing hands.
- clarkm 14y agoMost of it seems to be just trade volume on MtGox, not actual transactions recorded in the blockchain.
- w-ll 14y agoDeposits and withdraws of Bitcoin will show, but all trades within MtGox are not recorded in the blockchain. It's just Gox moving balances between accounts.
- clarkm 14y agoThat was exactly my point. Most of the bubbles on the screen on MtGox trades, not blockchain transactions.
- eric_bullington 14y agoHe means Gox moving balances between internal Gox accounts, like hot/cold wallets. Not trades. The trades you and I make on Gox don't show on the blockchain until they're withdrawn.
- justin_ 14y agoVery appropriate in choosing bubbles to represent bitcoins :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThe sound and the bubbles remind me somewhat of Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS.
- hayksaakian 14y agoI wish I could pop these bubbles.
- pjbrunet 14y ago@Maximillian Try a smaller font for smaller transactions.
- riderofrinos 14y agoYou can see what are currency trades vs. transactions on: http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/
- mactitan 14y agoAs fiat money devalues bitcoin becomes more valuable; but it might be doomed because the central banks could easily bubble it to oblivion.
- kefka 14y agoOh boy.. I was going to buy some bitcoins, but the price is creeping towards 100 USD/1 btc. That's just ridiculous. A few weeks ago, prices were around 26 USD/1 btc... So are we going to see a swing down that low again? Or is this SilkRoad talking?
- BrokenPipe 14y agothis is the effect of the scarcity of bitcoin. there's a tremendous network effect, more and more online shops accepting them as well as AFK. it allows much lower fees and risk than credit cards with their 3% plus chargebacks, up to 5-10% better margins for sellers. You can now use bitcoin to pay for services and even fines at some municipalities, cities and what not http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm You can buy things on amazon via bitspend as well as other services. And if you still don't trust bitcoin value to not go down, you can use services like bitpay that will convert for you instantly in whichever currency you want. There's even some VISA prepaid you can top up with bitcoin for the places that don't accept them. And you can now use bitcoin to pay for expenses and contractors http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/expensify-now-offers-support-for-bitcoin-an-alternative-to-paypal-for-international-contractors/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/expensify-now-offers-suppor... And while all this happens, the USD keeps getting printed at a far superior rate.
- loceng 14y agoThanks for explaining this.
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- bgruber 14y agoi used to do quite a bit of sonification of stock trades. i imagine bitcoin is the thing to use these days though, since realtime stock data was a pain to get and deal with.