Martin.btcThe Lab · nº 1
FRENES
Leave the lab
The Lab · Experiment nº 1

I’m leaving Switzerland, not the road.

10,456 kilometers separate Geneva from Lima. This page takes you across them. Scroll. And if you like, draw: your trace lives for four seconds, then fades, like someone passing through.

Block ······ the Bitcoin blockchain, live

0km traveled out of 10,456

Departure

Six countries filmed before the big move.

The globe follows the route. The stops appear as the kilometers add up. The videos are in French.

IT

Italy

From the Mezzogiorno to Sicily, a Bitcoin road trip in five episodes.

Watch the video ↗
CH

Switzerland

Swiss Bitcoin Tour: one week living 100% on bitcoin, back home.

Watch the video ↗
US

United States

9,300 km solo, from deserts to cities: A Swiss Guy in the USA.

Watch the video ↗
MX

Mexico

Isla Mujeres, the Yucatán, Chiapas: Mexico Trip, four episodes.

Watch the video ↗
CO

Colombia

Alone, from Medellín to San Andrés. In Comuna 13, bitcoin is accepted.

Watch the video ↗
PE

Peru

Lima off the map, Bitcoin Perú. The next home.

Watch the video ↗
Geneva → Lima · as the crow fliesThe globe follows the route
Act 3 · The countdown

The countdown to departure

days until Lima · December 28, 2026

Scroll: time folds back. Hover over it: it crumples. The number itself is real.

Act 4 · The ten thousand

10,000 dollars. One dot per dollar.

The starting capital, as it is invested today. The same numbers as the Portfolio page, read from the same file.

Act 5 · The chain

While you read, the network moves on.

Every ten minutes on average, someone, somewhere, adds a block to the Bitcoin blockchain. Nobody decides when. When it happens, this page lights up. Stay a while.

Source: mempool.space, relayed by the site’s server every 20 seconds. Your browser contacts no one else.

Block······

Mined…

Blocks mined since you got here0

A block is one more page in a ledger nobody can rewrite. This one is the latest at the moment you’re reading.

Act 6 · The postcard

Take your trace with you.

The arc of the journey, the date, and whatever you are drawing at the moment you click, in one image. Nothing is sent anywhere: it is all made in your browser, and nothing leaves it without you.

Draw just before you click, or don’t: without a trace, the card still goes out, with just the journey.

A stamp in sats

If you enjoyed this page, a few sats over Lightning fund the next experiments and the next kilometers. Thank you.

martin@ln.mtpelerin.com

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