Txstreet is a live transaction viewer. Each transaction on the blockchain is represented by a person, then they group together and fill buses, the buses represent blocks.
TxStreet.com translates real-time transaction data from the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Monero networks into South Park-style cartoons depicting passengers riding a series of buses. The site is partly intended to show the contrasts between two networks, the time between blocks and how transactions are dispatched. You don't have to have a dog in this fight to learn a lot on the site, both about the basics of cryptocurrency and the day-to-day reality of networks.
Each cartoon character on TxStreet represents a crypto-currency payment moving from one account to another. The size of a character corresponds to the amount of money being sent, while its walking speed indicates whether or not the sender has paid a system fee to speed up the confirmation.
These characters move to buses waiting at two stations. The buses represent "blocks" of transactions, sets of records that essentially every blockchain system collects, compiles and confirms at more or less regular intervals. The TxStreet buses and their passengers depart each time a block of transactions is confirmed by a network and added to its respective blockchain, which is the immutable record of each currency's transaction history.
It's a simple metaphor for systems that can seem impenetrable, and there's something both soothing and suspenseful about the ebb and flow of the crowd.
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