GM #nostr 📻 While field testing BWATCH, I built us something to listen to. BWATCH Radio turns the Bitcoin timechain into a shortwave numbers station. It's broadcasting from everywhere all at once and it never sleeps.
The chords are uniquely picked by each block's hash. While you wait for the next block, they drift back through the last eight.
The static is the wait in between blocks. The longer it takes, the louder it gets.
The voice announces every new block, seconds after it's found. Digit by digit, in two groups, the way numbers stations have read their codes since the Cold War. It comes through a small, slightly broken speaker.
The Morse is each block's call sign, drawn from its own hash. Same block, same call sign, forever.
The crackle is the mempool. As transactions pile in, it gets louder. A busy chain makes for a stormy line.
Every difficulty adjustment, the station retunes to a new key. Every halving, it drops an octave.
Somewhere, right now, a machine nobody owns is keeping time.
TUNE INTO BITCOIN
BWATCH Radio
Listen to Bitcoin. From hashes to chords.
