XRP Ledger City

[DevNullProd]

Come one, come all! Checkout our latest XRP visualization. Ledger City! (alpha release)

http://wipple.devnull.network/city/

 

Each building's height corresponds to a randomly selected account's XRP balance on the live ledger. Use the mouse to navigate around the city and view particular account id's and balances.

Best viewed on a desktop or other 3D-capable machine (mobile support is currently iffy). We have alot of ideas around this such as animating tx's as part of the visualization! Like to see it happen soon?! Please follow us on twitter and / or donate to the Wipple XRP intelligence project!

[Paradigm]

This looks awesome! Can’t wait to check it out on my computer later. Currently on mobile. 

[Flintstone]

That’s nifty!

Have you found Chris Larsen’s pad yet?

[tulo]

I find it scary.

[DevNullProd]

Haha!

8 minutes ago, Flintstone said:

That’s nifty!

Have you found Chris Larsen’s pad yet?

Haha not yet! But the sheer discrepancy between some of the larger accounts and the smaller ones is staggering. The scale of the building heights is set to sqrt(sqrt(XRP balance)) (square-root of the square-root of the xrp-balance) and even then the tops of the large ones are in the stratosphere! 

 

Thanks for the feedback!

[Guest]

40 minutes ago, tulo said:

I find it scary.

I’m assuming (perhaps incorrectly) from your terse comment that you refer to the enormous size of some holdings as an existential risk against XRP price rises. 

If that assumption is true,  then I beg to differ.  I don’t think enormous disparities in holdings is a new thing in investments or commodities.  

It certainly is a risk,   but I don’t think it’s as big as it seems.  During the ramp up of XRP utility there is the risk of flash crashes caused by huge profit taking dumps,  but I think that is self correcting in the high volume utility scenario.

After the ramp up I don’t think the large holding sizes will be too disparate with the liquidity. 

Of course I could be wrong about those ideas and in particular I could be wrong about what you meant by the comment.   

[Let_her_Ripple]

That is brilliant!! Can we search to find our own buildings??

[Flintstone]

@Tinyaccount I'm guessing Tulo meant spooky scary. I wouldn't like to walk around in there!

[Flintstone]

@devnullprod Just found this http://wipple.devnull.network/live/transactions/EscrowCreate  I've been looking to create a couple of escrows but in an offline manner.

Do you know if it is possible to create an escrow offline with a tx blob for online signing?

[DevNullProd]

 

24 minutes ago, Flintstone said:

@devnullprod Just found this http://wipple.devnull.network/live/transactions/EscrowCreate  I've been looking to create a couple of escrows but in an offline manner.

Do you know if it is possible to create an escrow offline with a tx blob for online signing?

 

Right now you can submit signed tx blobs here . Currently there isn't any offline 'prepare tx' option, but adding it is certainly a possibility. We'll let you know as soon as it's implemented!

[Flintstone]

13 minutes ago, devnullprod said:

Right now you can submit signed tx blobs here . Currently there isn't any offline 'prepare tx' option, but adding it is certainly a possibility. We'll let you know as soon as it's implemented!

Cheers! I've been trying to get to grips with Ripple API but I have yet to find a walkthrough suitable for a caveman. I've generated key-pairs but that's about it.

[DevNullProd]

12 minutes ago, Flintstone said:

Cheers! I've been trying to get to grips with Ripple API but I have yet to find a walkthrough suitable for a caveman. I've generated key-pairs but that's about it.

We've used it for our site and some tooling on the backend so feel free to ask here and we'll try our best to answer. Plus it's not unheard of to hear from the ripple devs in this forum!

Depending on what you're trying to do, the "write tx" workflow consists of:

- calling the "prepare" method for the tx type you are issuing ('prepareEscrowCreation', 'preparePayment', etc), this takes parameters specific to your tx

You can see our call to prepareEscrowCreate here and here

- calling 'sign' method to sign the produced tx with the specified credentials (eg your account keys)

You can see we sign the previously prepared method here and here

The previous two can be done offline, you will need to be online to finish up:

- calling the 'submit' method to submit the signed tx blog (or using the wipple link above)

We submit the signed TX here and here

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Official documentation of these methods, including what params they take, can be seen in the official docs.

[Flintstone]

That’s great, thanks! I’m just practicing how to be cautious and get a better understanding of how things work.

I hear quite a lot about how open source can be checked by the community and in turn, trusted. But I think the majority of people assume that the checking has already been done for them by somebody else.

So yeah, just trying to get a basic understanding. Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated!

[DevNullProd]

12 hours ago, Flintstone said:

@Tinyaccount I'm guessing Tulo meant spooky scary. I wouldn't like to walk around in there!

They say if you listen closely enough you can even hear the whispers of non-HODLr's!!!

You can disable 'fog' via the settings menu in the upper right (click the gear icon). This should change the effect a bit. Parameterizing the sky color is another TODO items on our list, we hope to get to it soon!

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, devnullprod said:

They say if you listen closely enough you can even hear the whispers of non-HODLr's!!!

You can disable 'fog' via the settings menu in the upper right (click the gear icon). This should change the effect a bit. Parameterizing the sky color is another TODO items on our list, we hope to get to it soon!

I had a look today at work and it's pretty awesome but I had to bail on it....  It was turning and turning even without any mouse action and the wallet count was slowly climbing through the low hundreds toward the 900 it had as a target.

After a few minutes it was about a third loaded.  I think the concept is awesome but it didn't really work in my situation.  It certainly failed (as you indicated it would) on mobile.

I look forward to trying it again one day when conditions are better...