What is Tx-Watch? Tx-Watch is a real-time Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) transaction visualizer. Tx-Watch listens to the networks for transactions and blocks in as they happen, then visualizes them as squares which pleasantly move across the screen. The larger the value of the transactions, the larger the square. See the legend for details. If you watch for long enough (~5 minutes) you'll likely see a block, and several million dollar transactions go by!

What should I look for? Keep an eye out for a... $1,000,000+ transaction

SLP token transaction

CashShuffle transaction

CashFusion transaction

Why is the BCH lane slightly larger? Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has a larger possible block size, so the lane is represented slightly larger to represent the larger capacity.

A block was found, why is the mempool count still high? On the Bitcoin (BTC) network each block is limited to 1MB in size. This is around enough room to confirm ~2,000 transactions. As such, when there's many transactions in the mempool, only a small fraction of them get confirmed in each block. On the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network each block is limited to 32MB in size. This is around enough room to confirm ~64,000 transactions. This leads to the BCH mempool completely clearing after each block, usually.

Why are there so few / many blocks? The blocktime on both BCH and BTC is one block every 10 minutes, on average. There can be - and often are - times where multiple blocks are found in a 10 minute span, and others where no blocks are found over an hour. This variance is due to the mining difficulty, total network hash-rate, and pure luck. All of which vary over time.

Why is the BTC average fee so much higher? The number of transactions which fit into each bitcoin implementation differs by network. On Bitcoin (BTC) each block can contain a maximum of ~1MB worth of transaction data. On Bitcoin Cash (BCH) keeping fees low is a priority so their blocks can fit up to 32MB of data. Once the block has been filled with transactions, each subsequent transaction has to outbid the other transactions if they want a miner to include it in a block. This leads to a fee market and rapidly increasing miner/transaction fees until the network congestion clears. This can take days, weeks, or months.

Why are so many BCH transactions under $1? Due to the sub-cent transaction fees, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a great blockchain to build secondary solutions, tokens, and micro-payment systems on top of. Some of these micro transactions are related to social media apps like memo.cash and read.cash, which allow content creators to earn tips for their content in large and micro amounts. Low value transactions Bitcoin (BTC) can be done on off-chain solutions which this visualizer does not attempt to visualize yet, but we will soon visualize the opening and closing of Lightning Network channels

Where is [insert favorite coin]? If there's demand and available API's for more coins we will look into adding more coins. Let us know