Timechain
105 artifacts plotted against the chain.
Block height as the spine. Halvings as the only protocol-level milestones. The shape is the argument.
Block 0 Current tip · ~900k
Pre‑chain
210k
1st halving
Nov 2012
420k
2nd halving
Jul 2016
630k
3rd halving
May 2020
840k
4th halving
Apr 2024
Pre-chain before block 0 10
Cycle 1 0 — 210k 13
Cycle 2 210k — 420k 22
- Magic Internet Money
- Cyprus
- Operation Choke Point
- The Citadel
- The Seed Phrase
- The First Bitcoin ATM
- Patient Zero
- HODL
- Be Your Own Bank
- The Honey Badger of Money
- The Mt. Gox Collapse
- I Am Not Dorian Nakamoto
- Hyperbitcoinization
- Bitcoin Pizza Day
- Trezor
- Hal Finney
- Don't Trust, Verify
- The Antonopoulos Books
- The BitLicense
- Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
- Bitcoin Has Failed
- The Lightning Network Whitepaper
Cycle 3 420k — 630k 23
- The Halving as Holiday
- The Bitfinex Hack
- Bitcoin Not Crypto
- The ₿ Symbol
- The Buy Bitcoin Sign
- The Block Size Wars
- SegWit Activation
- Number Go Up
- Bitcoin Twitter
- Tick Tock Next Block
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- The Bitcoin Standard
- Rat Poison²
- The Lightning Torch
- 1 BTC = 1 BTC
- The Case for a Small Allocation to Bitcoin
- Stock-to-Flow
- Bitcoin Beach
- Stay Humble, Stack Sats
- Gradually, Then Suddenly
- Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
- Mempool.space
- Money Printer Go Brrr
Cycle 4 630k — 840k 30
- The Cantillon Effect
- Bitcoin Fixes This
- The Treasury Strategy
- MicroStrategy's First Buy
- Have Fun Staying Poor
- Square's First Buy
- It's Going Up Forever, Laura
- Tesla's $1.5 Billion
- Laser Eyes
- The Coinbase IPO
- The China Mining Ban
- Bitcoin Is Hope
- El Salvador Legal Tender
- The Bitcoin 2021 Miami Stage
- Fix the Money, Fix the World
- Orange-Pilled
- The $69,000 Top
- The Taproot Activation
- SAB 121
- ∞ ÷ 21M
- The Terra/LUNA Collapse
- The FTX Collapse
- Operation Choke Point 2.0
- Ordinals
- Softwar
- The Skull of Satoshi
- Study Bitcoin
- Fink's Reversal
- Broken Money
- The Spot ETF Approval
What the shape shows
10
Pre-chain
13
Cycle 1
0 – 210k
22
Cycle 2
210k – 420k
23
Cycle 3
420k – 630k
30
Cycle 4
630k – 840k
7
Cycle 5
840k – now
Each halving cycle has produced more artifacts than the last. Cycle 5 is barely a year old and already has five. Bitcoin's cultural production accelerates with the chain itself — and the chain itself marks the inflection points.