Requant documentation

Live broadcasts

A broadcast is a Requant Lab network that plays by the server's clock, the same for everyone who watches. Viewers step into it: split it, delay it, switch pools off or make them cheat, and see what the chain does. Open requant.network/lab/?channel=bitcoin. How broadcasts work and what a crowd does to a network is in Live broadcasts research.

Channels

Bitcoin ×20, ×30 and ×50 play the same Bitcoin-profile network at three speeds: ×20 means the world's time runs twenty times faster than real time, so a 10-minute block comes about every 30 seconds.
Crowd is the same network with 50 bots that step in like viewers.
The channel list at the top shows each channel's pace and how many are watching. A season lasts 6 hours; then the world begins anew with a new seed.

What is on the screen

The stage. Every star is a node; the big bright ones are mining pools, and the number in a label is the node's share of the main chain's blocks. Blocks fly along the links; a split network drifts apart into parts. The globe view shows where the nodes stand on Earth; the choice is remembered.
The last block. The chain's height and who found its last block; the bar under it fills while the network looks for the next one.
The network at a glance. How many nodes are on the newest tip, how many branches compete, the mean time between blocks and how often nodes switched branch.
The feed. Blocks, reorganizations, impacts starting and their outcome.
Guide at the top starts a one-minute tour of the screen; on a first visit the broadcast offers it.

Step in

Pick a kind: split the network in two, add delay or loss on every link, switch a pool off, surge a pool's power, or make a pool hide its blocks. The pool buttons, with each pool's share of the power, choose which pool; to switch off any other node, click it on the stage first.
Charges. Each viewer has 3 charges on a channel; one comes back every minute. A split and hidden blocks cost two, the rest one; the dots on a button show its cost.
When it starts. An impact starts 15 seconds after the press and lasts 90 seconds of broadcast (a split and hidden blocks 180 seconds). If too many are running, it waits in the queue and the plan shows its countdown.
Support. Like someone else's impact in the plan? Support it once and it lasts 15 seconds longer.
Your name on air. Other viewers see you under a name made for your address (two words and a number); the address itself is not shown.
Rules for stepping in under the buttons list the limits: how many impacts of each kind run at once, the queue, the pauses between storms.

The season's slider holds the whole season; coloured spans are impacts. Drag it back or press 1 min back to see a moment again; Back to live returns to the broadcast's moment. While rewound, the feed and the support counts show only what had happened by then.
Link to the minute opens the last minute in the lab, where the same world can be taken apart or changed.
Video of the minute saves the last minute as an MP4 clip, named requant-lab-….

For programs

Channels are part of the Requant Lab API: GET /channels, GET /channels/{id} and POST /channels/{id}/impacts with {kind, nodes?, value?} or {kind: "support", id}.

Limits

A broadcast plays the lab's model of a Bitcoin-profile network scaled for a demonstration, not a real network and not the Requant testnet. Bots are scripted viewers.