Big Bang (6 of 6)

Big Bang (6 of 6) On July 30th 2015, Ethereum distributed ether from its sale into 36PrZ[...] (see "Inject Bitcoin," Series 1). This original plots hundreds of largest so-called "genesis wallets" -- addresses that received this ether. The network is laid out with Schmuhl's graphopt algorithm, seeded with the Unix timestamp of the genesis block (7/30/2015). Nodes are sized according to the amount of ether passing through them. For example, the largest distribution of ETH flowed into the Ethereum Foundation wallet, indicated by the massive node near the center of the "big bang." Also plotted are some of the first transactions from these large wallets, sized in accordance with the ether receiv...View all