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Drawing Bitcoin is a new online exhibition of mined blocks and transaction value using a web-based tool translated from a visual programming script. Each block is treated as a kind of found object: a sealed composition of economic activity, timestamped and permanent. Transactions within the block are plotted on a logarithmic scale, then arranged through a radial distribution based on Bitcoin transaction size. The result is part data visualization, part monetary anatomy, part digital painting. Every block has its own character. Some appear dense and chaotic. Others are sparse, elegant, or strangely symmetrical. Large transactions pull the eye outward. Smaller movements gather like particles. What normally disappears into code becomes visible as shape. The tool allows up to two blocks to be viewed side by side, creating a way to compare moments in Bitcoin’s history not just numerically, but visually. Blocks can be read as portraits of time: each one a brief, irreversible record of human decision, market energy, machine consensus, and mathematical finality. In this sense, Drawing Bitcoin is not only a tool for analysis. It is an exhibit of the blockchain as an aesthetic object. A block is usually understood as infrastructure. Here, it becomes image. 
A transaction is usually understood as accounting. This website makes it art.
A ledger is usually understood as record. Here, it becomes composition. Bitcoin is often described through price, politics, mining, or economics. This project approaches it differently: through looking. It asks what can be seen when value is drawn, when scarcity takes form, when a block becomes a field of marks. https://t.co/iWJTt1M1Pb is live now. It works best on desktop, with a simplified version available for mobile. Come explore the blocks. Compare them. Study them. Let the chain draw itself.

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