Halving I - Halving IV

Block Height: 210000
Total TXs: 457
Timestamp: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:38 GMT

Block Height: 840000
Total TXs: 3050
Timestamp: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:09:27 GMT

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After 6 months of experimentation/figuring out how to make this artwork, I’ve finally started on the first of the series.

Every piece is physically plotted with each line representing a transaction within each of the halving blocks. Over 12 hours of plotting time. The establishment of a consistent scaling standard allows for comparison between blocks.

Drawing thousands of lines representing each transaction has been something of an engineering, scripting, coding, architectural, artwork journey

more details soon…

Work in progress images

Halving I - IV

Rotring black ink on
350 gsm paper
Scale: 1 btc = 125mm
Radius: log10 (sats per transaction)

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Details

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When I’m designing or making I don’t know until I know

And part of that process is proto-typing, testing, taking it apart, putting it back together, more prototyping, repeat…

This drawing is one of the dozens of tests over the last 6+ months to find the right tools to draw blocks.

It has become as much an engineering project as it has an art project

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Halving I-IV

Rotring 0.2
Black ink
350 gsm paper

Plotted at a scale of
1 Btc = 125mm
Radius = sats per Tx’s
Scale = log10(sats per Tx)

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Difficulty adjustment happens every 2016 blocks

Halving happens every 210,000 blocks

On Block 1,260,000 both occur at the same time and only once every 6 halvings.

Is there a name for this event?

The Halviculty? the halvity? 😂

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wow

don't see many 7000+ Tx's in a block!

Block Height: 936367
Total TXs: 7481
Timestamp: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:55:50 GMT

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Halving I - IV

Ink on 350 gsm paper

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In a time of abstraction/complexity,
we still make sense of the world through what we see

Halving Blocks I - IV

Comparative halving block drawing
scale: 1 btc = 125mm
radius: log10(sats per Tx)

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Block 210 000

Radius = log10(sats per tx)

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Halving Blocks I - IV

Each line represents a transaction within each halving block.

Test plot fine tuning pen pressure & speed to balance resistance from the paper and allow the ink to be consistently drawn out through the nib

7898 tx’s in total

Plotted at a scale of:
1 btc = 150mm
Radius = log10(sats per tx)

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Block 840000 meets block 210000

Each line represents a transaction within each halving block

Drawn at a scale of:
1 btc = 150mm
Radius = log10(sats per transaction)

It’s been a journey to find a paper and a pen that is capable of drawing and taking 1000’s of lines in incredibly close proximity. Finally there after many experiments

Getting close to showcasing the finished artworks 👀

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