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what is it

Eight years of Bitcoin price, turned into a creature that climbs and crashes like the market itself. Greed and panic as growth force.

how is it made

Weekly return drives the growth direction: bull up, bear down. Volatility drives step length and nervousness, volume drives thickness, the return also sets the colour from green gain to red loss. A hard weekly crash triggers a shock.

what to look for

• Bull and bear as axis. direction here is genuinely meaningful: up is gain, down is loss.
• Nervous shoots. high volatility makes the shoots long and jittery, calm markets keep them short.

the honest part

The thinnest subject in the project. Wind or mortality is captured labour, a sensor recording for years; a price is captured emotion, the crowd's mood. And the weekly return drives both the direction and the colour, so two channels lean on one number instead of standing on their own.