The Bitcoin Core Monitor Story
A descent from the whole Bitcoin network down to a single window on one desk — and back out again, so you can see where you were standing.
Somewhere, a node comes online
One machine, in one room, quietly begins verifying. It asks nobody's permission. It finds a peer, then another, and starts checking every rule for itself.
Thousands of machines, agreeing on the truth
It is not alone. Thousands of nodes hold the same ledger, reach the same conclusions independently, and answer to no central authority. Connections form and dissolve continuously. No one is in charge of any of it.
One of them is yours
Among all of them, one route leads home — to a machine you own, on a network you control.
Everything starts here
Umbrel Home · Bitcoin Node · 1.2 TB · always on
Your own node, holding the full chain, validating every block. Everything that follows is downstream of this box.
Your node. Your index. Your miner.
Local network only
Your Bitcoin node over RPC. An electrs index for realtime wallet data. A Bitaxe, turning a little electricity into lottery tickets. All of it on hardware you can reach out and touch.
Nothing here came from anywhere else
Bitcoin Core Monitor assembles itself from the data your node sends it. Block height, peer count, mempool pressure, watch-only balance, hashrate — every value arrives over your own connection. No block explorer. No backend. No account. The app holds no private keys and cannot sign or broadcast a transaction.
Your Bitcoin. Your Node. Your Control.
Pull far enough back and the dashboard is one small endpoint in an enormous decentralised system — and it is entirely yours.