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Blockchain Mining & Consensus

Interactive 3D simulation of proof-of-work mining and the longest-chain consensus rule: independent miners race to extend a block chain, temporary forks appear when two blocks are found nearly at once, and the network resolves them by discarding the shorter branch.

Distributed & Parallel Computing3DModerate60 FPS

A blockchain has no central server deciding what happened next — instead, independent miners compete to solve a proof-of-work puzzle, and the network agrees to trust whichever chain represents the most accumulated work. This simulation shows that process live: watch mining nodes race to extend the chain, see temporary forks appear when two miners find a block almost simultaneously, and observe the longest-chain rule resolve the fork by discarding the losing branch as an orphan block. Adjust miner count, difficulty, latency and hashpower concentration to see how each one shifts the balance between throughput, fork frequency and centralization risk.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D simulation of proof-of-work mining and longest-chain consensus: independent miners race to extend a block chain, temporary forks appear when two blocks are found nearly simultaneously, and the network resolves them by discarding the shorter branch as orphaned.

Three.jsblockchainconsensusminingdistributed systemscryptography

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install