RE: It's Starting To Get Crowded: What Happens Economically When It Gets Flooded?

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It's Starting To Get Crowded: What Happens Economically When It Gets Flooded?

in steemit •  8 years ago 

ok, thanks. One more request: I would like to see what the blockchain looks like....a screenshot...it's inside a computer right?

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  ·  8 years ago (edited)

The data itself is stored in one big file (~360MB right now, download). It requires the steemd software to read it. Best visual representation is the output of that I guess.

steemd
Image ruthlessly stolen from https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@kenny-crane/hi-im-kenny-from-youtubestars
He's mining there, means trying to produce blocks. That's what the hash rate lines indicate. In between you see the transactions and the block number they were included in.

Next one is from my witness node, not mining, just producing. The red lines in between are calls to steemd from another software (the price feed script running once a minute)
witness steemd

this is fucking cool! I was trying to get a concept of blockchain and I kept seeing a real box with chains......it's nice to see it in reality. can i write an Interesting Engineering article and use these images? or is it off-limits? I'm still working on a killer article about Steemit......the fb audience for my employer (one of them) has 6.5 million followers.....it could be a big day for migration of people, i'm waiting til july 4 to publish it

A block is a set of data, and they're chained because each one references its parent. That's where the immutability comes from - change the content of one block, and all following blocks are invalid.

The second one is fine, no data in there that wouldn't be public anyway. For the first one you'll have to ask @kenny-crane - it's stored on ipfs, so I don't think it'll be a problem.

steemd.com lists all the blocks as they are made. its like blockchain.info for bitcoin.

Feel free to use my image, and link back if you choose, although it would be okay if you decide not to. If you need an different but similar pic, let me know and I'll get one for you!

These are the types of posts I think we need to incentivize upvoting on. What a great, detailed response.

Absolutely, Fuzzy! I have just been reading the answers up to now, very interesting. Right I'm going to keep reading down the page :-)

I thought that screen capture looked familiar. :P I don't mind that you borrowed it, and thanks for the link back to my intro. Thanks for your helpful answers here!