David Perry, a database administrator and the author of Coding In My Sleep, has delivered to the Bitcoin community perhaps one of the most awe inspiring visualizations of Bitcoin’s developmental history. The video he produced has really taken off.

“I stumbled across this excellent version control visualization tool called Gource,” writes Perry on his blog, “which visually shows the development history of a given project as derived from Git/SVN logs. I of course immediately pointed it at my local copy of the bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub repo and recorded/uploaded the resulting video. Of course I realized immediately after I finished the whole process that I forgot to pull new commits and the copy I’ve got on this PC is a few months old, but still it’s an interesting visual glimpse into Bitcoin history.”

In the video, it shows Satoshi Nakamoto—the yet-unidentified developer and Batman of Bitcoin—updating and developing the Bitcoin project on GitHub. As the project develops visually at a rate of 1 day every half-second other actors appear and disappear from the sphere and colored dots arise and ignite as development spirals into high gear. While at the beginning the Satoshi icon seems somewhat lonely but industrious—reminding me of a tiny drone flittering about beaming at the segements of code—it’s quickly joined by other developers as the timeline progresses.

One of the most glittering moments in the visual display happens at 4:27 (equivalent to April 2011) when an explosion of development splashes down into the sea of Bitcoin development.

This video is most enjoyable at full-screen and in full 720p.