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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows
+[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and the project uses
+[semantic versioning](https://semver.org/).
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [0.1.0] — 2026-09-16
+
+The first minor release, two days after the initial 0.0.9, and everything since it in one place:
+the 0.0.10 that was prepared on 2026-09-15 was never published, and its changes ship here. Four
+things shaped it. The **first outside review** of 0.0.9 on bitcointalk, which called out a monitor
+that bound every interface with no sign-in: 0.1.0 ships hardened — this machine only, sign-in on,
+HTTPS with a certificate it makes itself, and no outbound connection at all until the exchange
+feed is switched on. A day of **use on a laptop screen**, which found every tab a scroll: every
+page now packs to one screen at 1093×945, and the Mining tab follows mempool.space's dashboard
+with its **View more** panels. **Appearance**: the layout's colours are a setting — light or
+dark, five themes, or nine colours of your own. And the **DOS Diversions**: Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM
+and Quake, unmodified shareware on a PC emulated in the browser, written here with no
+dependencies, because "can it run DOOM?" deserved a straight answer. 945 tests, from 862.
+
+Upgrading from 0.0.9: [docs/INSTALL.md §11](docs/INSTALL.md#11-updating) — the first start after
+the update serves HTTPS, creates the `admin` account and prints its password once.
+
+### Security
+
+- **Hardened defaults** (after the first outside review of 0.0.9): the monitor binds `127.0.0.1`
+  and requires sign-in out of the box — the first start creates the `admin` account and prints its
+  password once (or takes `BLOCKYARD_ADMIN_PASSWORD`). Reach it from elsewhere over an SSH tunnel,
+  or bind a LAN address with `BLOCKYARD_BIND` / `server.hosts`; open read-only access is a choice
+  (`BLOCKYARD_AUTH=0`), announced at boot. The boot banner says how to reach a loopback-only
+  monitor. Existing installs keep whatever `config/local.json` says.
+- **HTTPS by default.** Every listener serves HTTPS; with no certificate named, the first start
+  makes the monitor its own self-signed one under `<data>/tls/` — written without dependencies
+  (`server/tls/selfsigned.js`: a v3 X.509 certificate assembled in DER and signed with ECDSA P-256
+  over SHA-256), naming the bound hosts, this machine's addresses and hostname — and remakes it
+  near expiry or when a bound address is missing from it. `blockyard tls` remakes it by hand
+  (`--san` to add names, `--print` to export it). Your own certificate still replaces it;
+  `BLOCKYARD_TLS=0` serves plain HTTP behind a proxy. The installer's summary and port probe know
+  both schemes.
+- **The installer asks twice before a non-loopback bind.** A LAN or wildcard address is written
+  only when the operator types it and confirms it; the default it offers is `127.0.0.1`.
+- **Market polling is off by default** — a new checkbox, **Display settings → Markets & Price →
+  Enable market polling**, shared by every screen. A fresh install makes no outbound connection
+  but to the node: the Markets and Kiosk tabs say that polling is off and where the switch is,
+  Overview's price line stays hidden and the explorer shows no dollar figures. Ticking it takes
+  effect at once; unticking parks the feed at once. `BLOCKYARD_MARKETS=0` still removes the feed
+  so that the checkbox cannot turn it on. Existing installs tick the box once.
+
+### Appearance
+
+- **A first tab in Display settings for the colours of the layout.** A theme mode — Light, Dark,
+  or System, which follows the operating system and changes with it — and theme cards with swatch
+  strips of the face the mode picks: **BlockYard** (the shipped look, the default; its dark face
+  is value for value what the monitor drew before), **Mono** (clean grayscale), **Nous** (GitHub's
+  chrome with a Nous blue accent), **GitHub** (Light Default and Dark Default) and **Catppuccin**
+  (Latte and Mocha). **Custom** is nine colour pickers — page, panels, text, muted text, accent,
+  lines, good, warning, bad — with the rest of a face derived from them (a raised panel, the
+  softer rules, the fainter text, the darker accent of a pressed button), and whether Custom is
+  light or dark read off its page colour; **customise <theme>** copies the theme on screen into
+  the pickers so a custom scheme starts from a look. Saved on the server with the other settings,
+  so every screen of the monitor draws the same; the sign-in page draws in the theme the browser
+  last saw.
+- The theme is applied through the CSSOM (the page's custom properties rewritten on `<html>`),
+  which the content-security policy permits where a style attribute is refused. The charts' axis
+  text, grid lines and tooltips, the order-book depth chart's two sides and the market charts'
+  grounds follow the theme — they were literals of the dark look, and a light theme would have
+  drawn grey-on-grey. The 3D boards stay space, and the Explorer's block and transaction pages
+  keep their own dark cards.
+
+### Mining
+
+- **The Mining tab has the network row**: reward stats over the last 144 blocks, the difficulty
+  period (blocks remaining, the estimated and the previous change, the next halving), a week of
+  pools with luck and counts, a year of hashrate with the difficulty's steps, and the last twelve
+  adjustments as a table — every figure from this node alone (`server/collect/network.js`:
+  `getblockstats` for the reward window, block headers for the periods and a daily sample, the
+  week's coinbases read in the background at the lowest RPC priority).
+- **mempool.space's layout**: two columns in its order (reward stats, difficulty adjustment;
+  pools, hashrate; recent blocks, adjustments) under the block flow, our own panels beneath, and
+  **View more »** on four cards opening that card full screen — the whole week of pools as a
+  table, the year's chart large, the whole attributed window of blocks, a year of adjustments.
+- **The pool chart is a labelled pie**: every pool named beside its slice and joined to it by a
+  leader in the slice's colour, the small ones stacked, slices under half a percent gathered as
+  "Other" — and the "Other" threshold rises until every label fits the card, so no name runs off
+  the bottom at any window height. The pie and the year chart size themselves to the window.
+- **Dollar figures** on the reward stats while market polling is on, from a new `/api/price` that
+  answers the cached spot price and never starts the exchange polling itself.
+- The Mempool space viewer left this page — it is on Overview, Block space and Mempool — and with
+  it the full-pool poll the page used to ask for. The reward window is exactly 144 blocks.
+- At a narrow window the block flow spans the width and is thinner, and the packages table scrolls
+  inside its card instead of bleeding into the neighbour; the three stacks become two below 1400px.
+- **A streak of stale drops of the full-pool poll is one story**: one warning event when it
+  starts, a counter on Node & RPC while it lasts, one event when the poll answers again with the
+  count and the span. On a day the node answered slowly for thirteen hours, each drop had been its
+  own event, 188 of the feed's 200 rows.
+
+### Every tab on one screen
+
+Measured at 1093×945 and 1600×1000 with a dead-height probe, page by page:
+
+- **Globally**: tighter card padding and heading spacing, and a short card beside a tall one keeps
+  its own height instead of being stretched to match (Chain & Sync's drill-down card had a
+  thousand pixels of nothing under its input; Node & RPC's poll cadence and connection cards
+  hundreds).
+- **Overview**: the block flow card a quarter shorter, and the Block space board capped to the
+  viewport (it set the whole right column's height), so the events are on the first screen.
+- **Block space**: the card tighter and the board sized so the whole page, note included, fits the
+  viewport without a scroll.
+- **Markets**: the board takes what the window leaves, and the exchange table and the order-book
+  depth sit side by side beneath it (under 1400px the table drops the pair, 24 h range and volume
+  columns; all still in the summary line and on the Kiosk) instead of the depth chart starting a
+  thousand pixels down.
+- **Kiosk**: tighter heads and gaps, the price panel's padding trimmed, the Block flow strip a
+  quarter shorter, and the full-screen button in that strip's head instead of floating over its
+  cards.
+- **Mempool**: keeps its two columns down to 900px (it stacked from 1100), and the room over goes
+  to its time-series charts, a fifth taller.
+- **Explorer**: a smaller title, the block strip's padding and scrollbar band trimmed, tighter
+  table rows and the table reaching the window's bottom edge — three more blocks on the first
+  screen.
+- **Peers**: a long onion or i2p address no longer makes the whole page scroll sideways (it clips
+  with an ellipsis and carries the full text as its title; a wide table scrolls inside its card),
+  rows and service badges tighter, the top strip's cards at their own heights.
+- **Network**: Throughput beside a stack of Upload and Traffic accounting, the throughput chart
+  taller, and the sources table taking the rest of the window.
+- **Events**: the feed reaches the window's bottom edge (it stopped a hundred pixels short).
+- **Chain & Sync**: one-line notes under the block-size and tip charts (the longer sentences are
+  their tooltips), the transaction-rate figures as one wrapping line, values that keep to their
+  line, and a shorter uptime label — the first three rows sit level and the drill-down and indexes
+  reach the first screen.
+- **Node & RPC**: two stacks (RPC etiquette with its figures in two columns, Data quality and Node
+  connection; Poll cadence, self-telemetry beside the log tail, Panel sources and the RPC
+  console) instead of grid rows that left holes beside the short cards.
+- **Admin**: two stacks (Users over the audit log; Node actions over Change own password, whose
+  two fields share a row). **Sign-in** and **404**: the same tighter card.
+- **Display settings**: the tabs in three labelled rows — Boards (Appearance, Block space, Sky,
+  Markets & Price), Effects, and the Diversions last; rows, note and groups tighter, the sheet a little wider so hints wrap
+  less, and on the two effects tabs the switches run two across with each hint as the row's
+  tooltip — the Space effects tab is under half the scrolling it was. The price line on Overview
+  switch sits directly under the polling switch it depends on.
+- **About**: the sky runs to the bottom edge with the credit line at its foot, and the GitHub
+  link and the tip pill share a row.
+- **The Diversions pages take the window**: the wells of Tetrust, Blockout and Blockanoid grow to
+  the window's height (they stopped at 600px), and the DOS screen is always 4:3 and as large as
+  the window allows — at a 1093px window the 320×200 picture had been drawn squashed into a
+  761×720 box.
+
+### DOS Diversions
+
+- **DOOM.** The shareware `DOOM.EXE` v1.9 and `DOOM1.WAD` from `games/doom_dos/`, unmodified,
+  running on a PC emulated in the browser with no dependencies: an i386 interpreter
+  (`public/js/x86.js`), the DOS/4GW machine around it — DOS, DPMI, BIOS, PIC, timer, keyboard and
+  a planar VGA (`dospc.js`) — and a Sound Blaster Pro 2 with an OPL3 for the effects and the music
+  (`soundcard.js`), in a worker. Demos, menus, savegames and ENDOOM all work; 35 frames a second.
+  Mouse capture, WASD keys by default (the switch rebinds the running game at once), smoothing,
+  full screen; pauses when you look away; savegames and DOOM's config stay in the browser.
+- **Wolfenstein 3D.** The shareware `WOLF3D.EXE` v1.4 and its `.WL1` files from
+  `games/wolf3d_dos/`, unmodified, on the same emulated PC — which now also runs a 16-bit real-mode
+  DOS program: real mode in the CPU (segments times sixteen, a wrapping SP, 16-bit string
+  instructions and interrupt frames), a plain MZ loader with its relocations, DOS's memory
+  allocator, the interrupt vector table, and VGA write mode 1. Menus, demos, AdLib music,
+  digitised sound effects, savegames and high scores kept in the browser, at its full 70 frames a
+  second. It sits before DOOM and Quake in the Diversions menu.
+- **Quake.** The shareware `QUAKE.EXE` v1.06 and `PAK0.PAK` from `games/quake_dos/`, unmodified,
+  on the same emulated PC — which now also plays the go32 stub and CWSDPMI for a DJGPP program:
+  segment bases and 16-bit code in the CPU, a COFF loader, a directory tree, DOS's system file
+  table, the BIOS tick count. Demos, menus, savegames, sound effects through the Sound Blaster,
+  and the order screen on quit. W A S D and mouse look on the first start, Quake's own bindings
+  after. Quake starts with a smaller view (`viewsize 80`); **−** and **=** change it and Quake
+  keeps the choice.
+- **The emulated PC is fast.** Each instruction is decoded once and cached rather than decoded
+  every time it runs (writes into cached code clear what they overlap, because both games patch
+  their own drawing code), the arithmetic and the x87 forms Quake runs most have handlers of their
+  own, and memory addresses are formed inline: Quake from 77 to about 141 million instructions a
+  second, its `timedemo demo1` from 29.7 fps to over 50; in the browser Quake plays at 40–50
+  frames a second.
+- **A way out of full screen**: an **exit full screen** button in the top corner while full
+  screen, and holding **Esc** for a second (a tap of Esc stays the game's menu, which is what the
+  keyboard lock is for); leaving unlocks the keyboard and releases the mouse.
+- The game files are served at `/games/<game>/<path>` (`server/http/games.js`); the shareware
+  packages live under `games/` (DOOM's moved from `doom_dos/` at the repository root).
+
+### Markets and the effects
+
+- **Black hole**, a Markets effect (modelled on NASA's visualisation, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14576): a
+  point of darkness opens and grows to a horizon over 26 s, the price line bends round it as
+  through a lens (the Einstein-radius push), the candles it reaches stretch and lean toward it and
+  shrink away into it, and an accretion disk seen nearly edge-on — a thin band white-yellow at its
+  inner edge through orange to a dark red rim, five hundred fibres spiralling inward sheared by
+  the Keplerian flow, its far side lensed into an arch over the shadow and a smaller one beneath,
+  a photon ring hugging the horizon, starlight bent into arcs. **It crosses the board**: it opens
+  a fifth of the way in on one side and runs a straight line through the chart to a fifth from the
+  other, from one height to another, so the line is seen bending round it as it passes; the
+  candles' orbits ride along at a quarter of the first cut's speed. It finishes its crossing before
+  it lets go, and lets go evenly, every candle gliding home and growing back smoothly. It hovered
+  over Block space for a day and its cubes never came home cleanly enough, so it is a Markets
+  effect only.
+- **Supernova** (the solar flare, renamed and remade on NASA Goddard's animation,
+  svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20413): the star is a glint — halo, hot core, diffraction spikes — growing and
+  blue-shifting as it goes; the opening explosion is a **white-hot flash**, held and washing far
+  out, that throws **a hundred and twenty-eight plumes of white gas** in every direction, each
+  flying and growing on its own out to nine star radii and drifting on until the effect is nearly
+  done (drawn on a half-resolution layer to keep the frame cheap); the debris is a volume of gas in
+  three layers — a blue cloud out in front, a white one behind it into which **violet grows patch
+  by patch from a tenth of the run**, and a deep violet heart — with a soft shock band throwing
+  and shaking the candles it crosses; and as the cloud dims a **pulsar** beats seven times a
+  second at the centre, two thin beams sweeping round, inside a nebula of the same gas that holds
+  its violet weight until four fifths of the run. 16 s (24 on Markets).
+- **Fireworks are a display**, on both boards: every shell drawn — the rocket's arc, a white flash
+  and a shockwave ring at the burst, seven shell kinds by turn (peony, chrysanthemum, willow, ring,
+  crossette, strobe and more), sixty to ninety sparks each a curved trail, a lens flare at every
+  burst, glitter rain, and a nebula of smoke that drifts up and lingers; up to ten shells on
+  Markets over 14 s (five on Block space), each lighting the candles under it in its own colour.
+  **Off by default** on both boards, kept for special occasions.
+- **X-ray**, on both boards: a front sweeps the board and everything behind it goes x-ray — bodies
+  dimmed to glass, every edge lit, a raster of thin lines across each face — then develops back.
+- **Breathe** and **Light saber**, on the price line: three slow swells from the plain wire to
+  white heat and back; and the line igniting from its left end, blue, green, red or purple by the
+  run, humming with a breathing glow, spitting sparks, retracting to the hilt.
+- **The energy pulse is heat, not blue, and its head is a crackling ball of plasma**; **the scan
+  line is a light curtain** standing on the board floor to the chart's top; **ball lightning is a
+  light source**, its arcs discharges built by midpoint displacement rather than zigzags, a quarter
+  of its size and a third of its speed on Markets; the scanner's cone is dimmer on both boards.
+- **The Markets board keeps its price fit across refreshes**: the last fit is kept while the data
+  still sits inside it and fills at least two-thirds of it, so a refresh no longer re-scales the
+  whole chart unanimated. Whatever a head pulls is painted last, nearest the head on top; a held
+  pool refresh waits a moment and a half after an idle effect ends, with the board whole and still.
+- **Layered soft fills add up correctly** (`softStops`): each nested disc carries only its
+  increment, so a stop's cumulative opacity is exactly the stop's; measured on the Kiosk, the
+  supernova's peak opacity fell from about 0.9 to about 0.45 and the chart shows through it.
+- **The no-repeat window holds from the first pick** on both boards: every effect plays once
+  before any repeats (a negative slice index had let one come round at the tenth pick). The
+  searchlight and the tractor beam, which fly the same saucer, share the window.
+- **A Kiosk test suite** (`test/kiosk.test.js`): every Markets and Block space effect plays through
+  the frame loop on a Kiosk-sized panel; the supernova, the black hole and the fireworks are
+  bounded by the board's width so no panel is covered.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **The donation QR shows on Safari.** It was an inline SVG of 800 module rects, and Safari on
+  the first Mac install painted its white ground and none of the rects. It is a PNG now, painted
+  the same everywhere.
+- **A dead index worker fails the build instead of hanging it.** A worker killed outright (out of
+  memory, with four beside the node) left its job unanswered and the build sat at "scan 5,720 of
+  5,721, about 1 s left" for an hour and a half on the first Mac install. The run now rejects the
+  moment a worker exits or throws, naming the job and the fix (fewer `addressIndexWorkers`); the
+  progress flag says *no progress for N min* when nothing has moved.
+- The 0.0.9 release notes' test count corrected (862, not 864).
+
+### Documentation
+
+- INSTALL, GETTING-STARTED, SECURITY, CONFIGURATION, API, TROUBLESHOOTING and the README describe
+  the hardened defaults, HTTPS and the polling switch; INSTALL §11 has the notes for updating a
+  0.0.9 install; the USER-GUIDE has the Appearance section, the Mining row and the packed layouts;
+  TROUBLESHOOTING explains a streak of stale pool-poll drops. Screenshots re-shot at 0.1.0, with a
+  Mining shot added. The announcement for the bitcointalk thread is in `docs/announcement/0.1.0/`.
+
+## [0.0.9] — 2026-09-14
+
+The initial release. Everything in it, like everything before it, was written by an AI directed by a human
+operator, and audited by AI (`docs/SECURITY-AUDIT.md`, `docs/SECURITY-AUDIT-2026-09-14.md`). It is
+experimental pre-release software. BlockYard runs **on the machine that runs Bitcoin Core** (25.0 or
+later), because the explorer's address index is built from the node's own block files; a node on
+another machine, and the experimental node that earlier measurements were taken on, are not supported.
+864 unit tests, no dependencies. Tagged `v0.0.9`. **The address index takes a few hours to build** on first start (about two on four workers on NVMe); every other page works meanwhile.
+
+### The 3D boards' effects, per board
+
+- **Each 3D board has its own effects list.** The one Effects tab is now two: **Space effects**
+  (the Block space board's 28 switches — every effect but the two drawn on a price line) and
+  **Market effects** (the Markets board's 12: ripple, outline sweep, tide, cascade, twinkle,
+  scan line, fireworks, solar flare, wave, energy pulse, pipe bulge, ball lightning — the ones
+  that translate to a candle chart; ball lightning is half its Block space size there). Each has its own no-repeat window and its own
+  all on / all off, which the no-repeat slider had silently taken away. A saved settings store is
+  migrated (schema 4): the Markets list starts as a copy of the list there was.
+- **Each effects tab sets its board's cadence.** *Between effects, at least* / *at most*
+  (seconds, 5–9 by default, up to ten minutes on Space effects and five on Market effects) on both tabs, and *First effect after landing*
+  (1.2 s by default, up to two minutes) on Space effects only — the candle board has no landing
+  — drive the scheduler's own timers, per board.
+  The no-repeat slider on each tab tops out at that list's length.
+- **Nothing on the Markets board waits its turn.** The pulse, the bulge and ball lightning were
+  held to a clock of 2.5-6 minutes between plays; they are ordinary picks now, and the list you
+  leave on decides how often any one of them comes round.
+- **Everything on the Markets board moves along the hours** — left or right, never toward the
+  viewer — and lights the candles or the line: fronts (outline, scan, tide, wave) run along the
+  chart, rings (ripple, shockwave, nova) start on the candle row, the light cycles ride in from
+  the two ends with their walls on the candle tops, the lightning ball rides the price line, and
+  ball lightning flies through the chart's own height. Candle faces light under an effect now
+  (the camera is low, and a glow painted on a candle's top alone was invisible).
+- **Ball lightning strikes candles.** `cellTops` began each tile at its own fractional x and y,
+  which on the candle board (tiles between grid lines) stored nothing, so every cell top was
+  zero and no arc found a target. Half the arcs now chain on from the struck block to
+  another in electric green, the instant they land, and half of those on to a third block.
+- The lightning ball is one pale gradient with a white-hot heart, and a pale burn behind it,
+  instead of five stacked discs of deepening blue that read as a dark blot.
+
+### The explorer's address history, from an index of our own
+
+- **Address pages show full history and balances on Bitcoin Core.** This was the explorer's one
+  real gap, and it was not a bug: Core has **no address index at any setting**. `getaddressbalance`
+  and `getaddresstxids` are insight-style extensions carried by forks, and stock Core answers
+  `Method not found` (measured 2026-09-13 against two Core nodes). mempool.space
+  shows the same address's history only because `electrs` builds that index from the block files
+  itself. So this monitor now does the same, in a form it can afford: `server/chain/`.
+- **Reading the node's own files, not asking the node.** `blk*.dat` on a current Core is
+  XOR-obfuscated at rest (`-blocksxor`, default since v28, the key in `blocks/xor.dat`) -- the
+  first spike concluded "not a Core datadir" and was wrong. De-obfuscated, `server/chain/blockfile.js`
+  frames the records; `server/chain/tx.js` decodes transactions and blocks, checked
+  **field-for-field** against `getblock <hash> 3` (91,813 spent coins in 16 sampled file pairs, 0
+  mismatches); and the undo (`rev*.dat`) records supply each spent coin's script and amount,
+  which is how the spending side is known without replaying the UTXO set. Pairing blocks with
+  undo records by trying every candidate was quadratic on the tiny early blocks (file 0: 35 minutes
+  and not finished); Core appends undo in connection order, so blocks are put in chain order by
+  their previous-block links and walked in step -- file 0 pairs in 5.9 s.
+- **A lean row.** One 21-byte row per (script, transaction that touched it): 8 bytes of
+  sha256(script), the height, the position in the block, and the **net satoshis** the transaction
+  moved for that script -- so a balance is a sum, with no node call. A script paid and spent in the
+  same transaction is one row (18% fewer). The full decoder builds Core's verbose shape and was 5.9
+  of the 9.5 single-core hours measured for the chain; the index needs only each output's value and
+  script bytes, so `server/chain/index/rows.js` walks the raw transaction itself and is checked
+  row-for-row against rows from the full decoder.
+- **Flat sorted files, no database.** Measured against `node:sqlite` on three real file pairs
+  (`docs/MEASUREMENTS.md` §29): 21 bytes per row against 24-27, a 5.5 M rows/s sort against a
+  1.4 M rows/s key-ordered load, and no B-tree collapse once the keys outgrow memory. 256 sorted
+  segments by key prefix with a sparse index (one key per 4,096 rows) held in memory; a lookup
+  binary-searches the sparse keys and reads the one 86 KB block that can hold its key.
+- **Built and measured** (§30): `node scripts/index-build.js --out <dir> --workers 16` read all
+  5,756 file pairs in **29 min 45 s** (7.8 CPU-hours across 16 workers) and wrote
+  **5,890,519,289 rows, 123.7 GB** -- every height present exactly once, two stale blocks skipped,
+  and within 1.5% of the projection. **40 of 40 balances equal `scantxoutset`** at the same
+  height, to the satoshi; every (script, transaction) pair of four whole blocks from 2009 to the
+  tip found at its height and position with its amount. Lookups: **0.25 ms** median first touch,
+  0.03 ms warm; a 2.3 M-transaction address's whole history summed for its balance in 83 ms.
+  For scale: `scantxoutset`, the only thing Core offers, took 26.5 s for one scan of 40 addresses
+  holding the node's RPC thread, and answers only the current balance, never a history.
+- **It follows the chain.** `server/chain/index/live.js`, started by the server for each configured
+  index directory, polls every 30 s, fetches each new block with `getblock <hash> 3` over RPC (so
+  the files are read once, at the build), and **logs the rows before serving them** in a
+  CRC-framed `live.log` that is replayed on restart and drops a record torn by a crash. A
+  reorganisation rolls the tail back to the fork; blocks 100 deep are **folded** into immutable
+  sorted layers and layers past 32 are merged; a reorganisation below what is folded stops the
+  follower and the page says to rebuild. Checked live: 12 blocks caught up in 6.5 s, 40 of 40
+  balances then equal to `scantxoutset`, and on release day the index reached a new block 16 s
+  after the node did. The rows it derives through RPC agree row-for-row with the rows built from
+  the files (`test/chain-index-live.test.js`).
+- **The address page reads it.** `addressIndex` in a node's config names the directory (one index
+  serves every node on the same chain); the page shows the transaction count, balance, total
+  received and sent, and the transactions newest first with the **net change each made**, 25 a
+  page, deep pages costing no more than the first. The reply carries `index.tip`, `index.behind`,
+  `index.following` and `index.stale`, and the page says when the index is behind the node or has
+  stopped following. Checked live: every row of four pages, including page 4 of a 2.3
+  M-transaction address, matched the node's decoded transaction for txid, height and amount.
+- **Without an index, the page is honest rather than empty.** A node's refusal used to become `[]`,
+  then `txCount: 0`, then "no transactions in this node's address index" -- a fabricated zero
+  indistinguishable from an unused address. The reply now carries `indexed: false` with a **null**
+  count, the page says the index is absent, and the dead RPCs are not re-sent on every view: a
+  "method not found" is remembered per node for ten minutes, then asked again, because the daemon
+  behind a node id can change.
+- **A rebuild in place is safe.** `buildIndex` empties its output directory first, so a follower's
+  `live.log` and layers -- holding the reorganised-away blocks -- cannot survive into a new index and
+  a fresh follower catches up on the chain as it is (`test/chain-index-live.test.js`). Stop the
+  server, run the same command, start it; the advice to build into a fresh directory is withdrawn.
+- **A missing address index is built by BlockYard itself, in the background** (operator: "Is it
+  possible to run step 6 in the background, and have a status notification in blockyard when the
+  index process is finished?"). On start, an `addressIndex` directory with no index in it is built
+  on worker threads while every page keeps serving; the progress is a quality flag on the Overview
+  and a line on the address page (phase, files done, rows so far, time left); an event marks the
+  start, the finish and a failure, and the browser toasts it; when it finishes the follower starts
+  and address pages work with no restart. `addressIndexBuild: "manual"` keeps it from happening.
+  The installer's step 6 offers background (the default), here, or later.
+- **The build shares the machine with the node, and behaves like it.** Every build -- the server's
+  background one, the installer's build-here and `scripts/index-build.js` -- goes through one pacer
+  (`rpcPacer`) that reads the monitor's own RPC telemetry: before each file it holds, ten seconds at
+  a time, while the node's RPC is failing, its breaker is open or its answers average more than
+  `rpc.slowLatencyMs` (5 s), and eases to one file at a time with a pause between above 40% of that.
+  It first held at one second, which ran a healthy build on a node whose heavy reads take a second
+  at a sixth of its speed; the threshold is the monitor's own notion of slow now. The height batches
+  are paced the same way, 1,000 at a time at the lowest priority. The server's build opens its own
+  RPC connection, as `scripts/index-build.js` always did, so it and the monitor stop starving each
+  other: on the first Mac its `getblockhash` batches queued behind multi-second mempool and block
+  reads on the monitor's one lane, and both sides starved ("heights 1,000 of 967,015" for a quarter
+  of an hour). Workers: `addressIndexWorkers` in the node's config, written by the installer; unset,
+  the server takes half of what a dedicated build would and at most four. The `rpc-slow` and
+  `rpc-timeouts` quality flags name the build when one is running and no longer assert a cause from
+  another node's era. **An interrupted build starts over**: there is no resume after Ctrl-C, and the
+  installer says so when it happens.
+- **An address's unspent outputs are listed** (operator, the same day: "Why don't we do this"): the
+  index names every transaction that touched the address, each one's outputs paying it are asked of
+  `gettxout` (the UTXO set, less what the mempool already spends), and the page lists them with the
+  index's own height and their count on the card. The walk is the whole history, so it is made for
+  an address with at most 100 transactions and declined in words for a longer one.
+- **Not yet:** an address's transactions still in the mempool.
+- **An unconfirmed transaction shows its inputs and fee** (operator: "Unknown script?!", of a
+  mempool transaction whose 858 inputs all read *unknown script*). Core carries no `prevout` on a
+  mempool transaction's inputs, so `fillPrevouts` fetches the parents in one batch and fills each
+  input's script and amount; checked on that transaction, 858 of 858 inputs, and a fee of 77,958
+  sat equal to `getmempoolentry`.
+
+### The installer: `npm run setup`, `npm run check`, and the `blockyard` command
+
+- **An installer: `npm run setup`** (operator: "build a test into the installer so we can verify it
+  properly connects to an RPC server and finds the bitcoin logs ... something that writes out a
+  config/local.json at the end ... that we can up and run immediately to start building the
+  transaction set"). It asks for the RPC URL and data directory, finds the cookie (or asks for
+  `rpcUser`/`rpcPassword`), and proves the answers before writing anything: the RPC server answers
+  and on which chain, the node's version is 25.0 or later, `txindex` is on and synced,
+  `getblock <tip> 3` carries prevouts, the node is not pruned, `blocks/` holds matched block and
+  undo files and the first one opens to the genesis block through the XOR key, `debug.log` is where
+  it should be, and a configured index directory is readable, writable and not far behind. Then it
+  writes `config/local.json` (mode 0600, a backup of any previous one) and offers to build the
+  address index on the spot. `npm run check` runs the same checks against every configured node
+  and exits non-zero on a FAIL; `--yes` with flags is the scripted form. `docs/GETTING-STARTED.md`
+  walks a macOS or Linux command prompt through it. Six numbered steps, every answer validated and
+  explained before it is accepted (a URL that is not one, a port off the range, a directory that
+  is not there, a hostname where the config wants an address), a warning when something already
+  listens on the port, a progress bar with the rows so far and the time left for each phase of the
+  build (the same bar in `scripts/index-build.js`), Ctrl-C that leaves everything as it was, and a
+  last question that starts the monitor in the same terminal.
+  It reads the node's own `bitcoin.conf` first (operator: "can't you look through the user's
+  .conf and find the rpc values?"): chain, `rpcport`, `rpcconnect`, `rpcuser`/`rpcpassword`,
+  `rpcauth` users, a cookie file named elsewhere, `server=`, `txindex=`, `prune=`, sections and
+  `includeconf=`, so the RPC URL and the credentials arrive as defaults rather than questions.
+- **Every check is timed**, because how fast the node answers is half of what an install needs to
+  know, and the verbose mempool read -- the monitor's heaviest regular call, every 20 s -- is one of
+  the checks, with a warning when it is slow enough to lag the board. An unbuilt index is reported
+  as information, not a fault.
+- **Defaults**: the index in the checkout's `data/index`, like everything else the install writes;
+  at most **four** build workers (the shared-machine number; one on spinning disks, each needing
+  ~2.5 GB of memory); the build in the background once BlockYard starts.
+- **The banner** (operator: "I want the installer to have amazing ANSI Art here for the BY logo",
+  then "It needs to fit in 80 character space. Standard CRT"): the BY monogram -- the same tile the
+  favicon is -- in 26x12 solid cells, one cell per pixel painted as a background colour so it fills
+  the cell in every font, the About text beside it, and the whole run inside 80 columns (piped at
+  80: widest line 79). Every line wraps to the terminal with its indent kept, a box cuts a line past
+  its room with an ellipsis, widths are measured on what is seen rather than on colour codes, and
+  colour steps aside without a TTY or under `NO_COLOR` (`FORCE_COLOR` turns it on).
+- **An npm package and a `blockyard` command** (operator: "push to npm"). `package.json` loses
+  `private` and gains `bin` and `files` (bin, server, public, scripts, the pool map, systemd, the
+  docs, the licence and notice; no tests, no images: 924 kB packed). `blockyard setup | start |
+  check | index-build | users` keeps the config and data under `~/.blockyard` (`BLOCKYARD_HOME`),
+  since a global install's own directory is nowhere to keep a config or 124 GB of index; a checkout
+  run with `npm run …` is unchanged.
+
+### Fixes from the first fresh install (a Mac, Core 29.1)
+
+- **A node without `coinstatsindex` was sent a full UTXO-set walk every minute.** Found on the
+  first Mac install: `getindexinfo` said there was no coinstats index, and the rule read that as
+  "not assumed unindexed" and asked `gettxoutsetinfo` anyway, on the slow tier, every 60 s -- a
+  walk of 165 M outputs that Core kept computing after the 90 s timeout, holding its chain lock,
+  so every other call answered in 18 s, the mempool read was dropped and the block-space board
+  stayed empty. Everything was blamed on the index build, which had nothing to do with it. The
+  UTXO figures are now asked only of a node that has said it keeps the index; the indexes are
+  asked first, alone, before anything expensive.
+- **A fresh install attributed no blocks** and showed raw coinbase tags: the curated pool map
+  lived only in `data/`, written by a script nobody had run. The map (mempool.space's
+  mining-pools list, MIT, 151 pools) ships in `config/` and is used until `scripts/pool-map.js`
+  writes a newer one into `data/`.
+- **Nothing holds hundreds of files open any more.** The index store kept one descriptor per
+  segment and layer -- 256 and more -- for the life of the process, and the build kept all 256
+  bucket files open through the scan; a stock macOS allows a process 256 (`ulimit -n`) before it
+  has opened a socket. A lookup opens the one file it reads and closes it (measured on the full
+  index afterwards: 0.02 ms median warm, 21 descriptors held by the whole process), and the build
+  keeps at most 64 bucket files open, least recently written closed first. Found while preparing
+  the first macOS install.
+- **The installer wrote 16 workers when Enter was pressed.** The suggestion was the machine's core
+  count; it is the shared-machine number now, at most four. And it asked for what the node's own
+  `bitcoin.conf` already answered -- read first now, above.
+- **The banner's half-block art seamed on the Mac's Terminal** (operator: "What is this garbage?!"):
+  a font decides where a half-block glyph sits in its cell. One character cell per pixel, painted as
+  a background colour, which every font fills.
+- **Lines wider than 80 columns.** The summary box's one long line broke its frame on an 80-column
+  terminal; every line the installer says now wraps to the terminal width.
+- **Block cards clipped and wrapped numbers on a wider font**: a value could wrap mid-number ("604"
+  drawn as "60" over "4"), and the stats columns clipped. Values keep their line, the columns size
+  to their content, and the card is ten pixels wider.
+- **Windows.** The run-as-main check compared a file URL (`/C:/x`) with a realpath (`C:\x`) as
+  strings, so no script's `main()` ran; they are compared as paths (`fileURLToPath`). LF on every
+  checkout (`.gitattributes`): several tests match line-anchored patterns in source files, and a
+  CRLF checkout turned every one into a miss. The temp directory is the platform's, not `/tmp`;
+  defaults and paths are spelled per platform; a file-mode assertion knows Windows has none; the
+  scanner is keyed with `/`. **CI runs on Ubuntu, macOS and Windows**, Node 22 and 24, and the suite
+  passed on all six at `2010b24`.
+
+### Sync: a long gap is not a stall
+
+- **Stalled only when the peers know a higher tip.** Two independent nodes at the same height, no
+  block for 42 minutes, and the header said STALLED in red. The network finds no block for 40
+  minutes about once in fifty. The state is stalled only when a connected peer reports a tip above
+  this node's (`getpeerinfo` `synced_headers`, `startingheight` as the fallback); when the peers
+  agree on the tip the node is synced and the caveat names the gap as the network's; with no peer
+  height to check, the word waits for two hours. The caveats say which of the three it is.
+- The sync detail's three log-derived rows exist only where the figure does; Bitcoin Core prints
+  none of them.
+
+### Block space and Markets
+
+- **Agent effects.** The board's idle repertoire is **30 effects**, each with a switch: to the
+  fields (ripples, plasma, code rain, fireworks and the rest) the operator asked for things that
+  *happen* -- "think more TRON light cycles" -- and fifty video-game-inspired effects were designed
+  (`docs/EFFECTS-AGENTS.md`), built, watched, and cut to the ones that earned their place. The
+  agents that stayed: **light cycles**, the **lightning ball**, a **centipede** that weaves down the
+  board and splits, a **UFO** whose tractor beam lifts the tallest transaction and drops it back
+  under gravity, **Missile Command** arcs against rising interceptors, **Boulder Dash** where the
+  board gives way from a point, and **ball lightning** drifting across the whole view, its arcs
+  electrifying the blocks they strike (it replaced a portal pair). Every agent is checked on a
+  flat uniform board too, so none can be blinded by a skyline it happens not to read.
+- **No repeats within N** (default 12): an effect is never played again until that many others
+  have played; where fewer are switched on, the one that has waited longest plays next.
+- **The Markets price line is one continuous pipe** rather than forty segments, with a rarer
+  **energy pulse** and a new **pipe bulge**, each of them rare -- 2.5-6 minutes between plays: a ball forced through the tube,
+  swelling the wall with an arced, stretched skin, the bright core magnified through it as through
+  a fish-eye lens; it enters at the line's first point at exactly the tube's size, is as large as
+  fits for as long as possible, leaves at the last, and runs quicker downhill than up.
+- **A chrome finish** (Display settings → Metallic finish): every face mirrors a horizon that
+  slides as the blocks move; satin is the softer highlight that was there before.
+- **Depth**: a touch of perspective, off by default, so a cube's top grows a little wider than its
+  base and a flying block swells as it rises. Capped at 0.001 after larger values put flyers
+  through resting cubes.
+- **Departures and arrivals**: how blocks leave and rejoin the board on a refresh, chosen by
+  measurement (flights clear their neighbours before fanning, leave the frame rather than popping
+  at its edge, and take a lane per leg); a recoloured cube blends to its new colour instead of
+  popping; and where a flyer is clearly above a resting cube it paints over it.
+- **The block-flow cards are linked as a chain that reads as one** (operator: "looks bad on a black
+  background. Re-do it to be much more stylized and visible"): two pale outlined pills that vanished
+  on the dark panel are two interlocked links now, accent-coloured tubes with a highlight and a
+  glow, the left link's top strand painted again over the right so the pair weaves.
+
+### Security
+
+- **The second AI security audit's findings, the same day** (`docs/SECURITY-AUDIT-2026-09-14.md`,
+  which re-verified the 09-13 fixes live and covered the address index and explorer). Its one
+  medium: `/api/x/address` sized an allocation by the request's page number, 525 MB for
+  `page=999999` on a two-row address -- a deep page now counts the history first and keeps at most
+  what exists. The rest: rows above the node's tip (a reorganised tail the follower has not yet
+  rolled back) are left out of the count, balance and page and reported as `index.postTip` with a
+  caveat on the page; a pool key is escaped like everything around it; a transaction summary with
+  more than 2,000 inputs and outputs is never cached; a test fixture no longer lives at a fixed
+  name in `/tmp`; `audit.jsonl` and `history.json` are created owner-only.
+- **The first AI security audit** (`docs/SECURITY-AUDIT.md`, 2026-09-13) found one HIGH and four
+  more, all fixed the same day; they are the next four items.
+- **The node-connection probe leaked the node's RPC credential** (HIGH, found by audit and
+  reproduced with a working exploit). `POST /api/config/node/test` built its throwaway client from
+  the live node's config, so `resolveCookie` read the real `.cookie` and sent it as an
+  `Authorization` header **to whatever URL the request named** -- on a request needing no session
+  and no CSRF token, reachable by a plain cross-site form. Credentials now go only to the endpoint
+  the monitor is already configured for; anywhere else is probed unauthenticated and says so. Open
+  mode additionally refuses any state-changing request whose `Origin` is not this server or whose
+  `Sec-Fetch-Site` says cross-site.
+- **Session TTLs were inverted**: an 8-hour absolute lifetime with a 72-hour idle ceiling meant the
+  idle check could never fire. Now 72 h absolute, 8 h idle, with a test on the invariant.
+- **`randomPassword()` drew with modulo bias**, over-representing the first 58 characters of its
+  66-character alphabet. It uses `crypto.randomInt` now.
+- **The audit trail redacts by key shape**, not by two hardcoded field names, so an action echoing a
+  key-shaped argument cannot write a secret into the one file designed to be kept.
+- A re-audit is planned after the first install (`AGENTS.md`).
+
+### Scope, documentation and the name
+
+- **A node on another machine, over RPC alone: tried, and dropped.** On 2026-09-13 the monitor was
+  pointed at a node appliance on the LAN with `rpcUser` / `rpcPassword` and no `datadir` -- a
+  configuration the validator had refused at boot until it was fixed -- and the monitor half
+  worked: chain, mempool, peers, blocks, the block being built. The explorer did not, and no
+  setting would make it: Core has no address index, `scantxoutset` holds the node's single RPC
+  thread for tens of seconds per query and knows no history, and a node answering over the
+  network in seconds left address pages waiting minutes. **Real-time explorer data over RPC was
+  a failed idea.** The address data is rebuilt from the block files and stored locally instead,
+  the way mempool.space's `electrs` does it (above), which is why BlockYard runs on the node's
+  machine. The install guide's appliance section is gone; `rpcUser` / `rpcPassword` remain for a
+  node that uses `rpcauth` instead of the cookie file, and the `bitcoin.conf` lines that measured
+  as worth having (`txindex`, `coinstatsindex`, `dbcache`) are kept, each annotated with what it
+  does for this monitor.
+- **This is a Bitcoin Core-centric release.** The README, install, configuration, API and
+  architecture documents describe Core; the shipped defaults are Core's own (`id: main`,
+  `127.0.0.1:8332`, `~/.bitcoin`, `bitcoind.service`). Measurement records taken against a
+  non-Core build are anonymised rather than relabelled -- they describe what was measured, and
+  claiming otherwise would invent measurements that never happened.
+- **Log parsing is documented as unavailable for Bitcoin Core.** The parsers target an experimental
+  node's log grammar; fed Core's `debug.log` they extract no figures and timestamp entries at read
+  time. The log source is off by default and should stay off against Core --
+  `test/log-core-unsupported.test.js` pins that so it cannot be assumed away.
+- **The old name is gone from the tree** (operator: "WHY THE FUCK DO I STILL SEE THE OLD NAME
+  REFERENCES IN OUR TREE DOCS"): a `git grep` for the old prefix finds nothing but bytes in a JPEG.
+  The allowlist's vendor-prefixed read verbs -- an earlier node's, and that node is not supported --
+  are gone with their test, and a vendor-shaped method is denied by default; two scripts that
+  defaulted a CA path to a directory named after the old project take it from the environment or
+  nothing; `NOTICE` and `LICENSE` name BlockYard and its copyright holder.
+- **Every document read against the code**: sessions are 72 h absolute / 8 h idle (two documents had
+  it inverted); display settings live on the server; the effects list is the thirty that exist; four
+  API routes that were undocumented are documented from their handlers; ARCHITECTURE gains the
+  address-index subsystem; three stale code comments and the mempool feed's stated cadence
+  (60 -> 20 s) corrected; screenshots re-shot against the local Core node. `docs/GETTING-STARTED.md`
+  walks a macOS or Linux command prompt through the install (brew's plain node formula, where
+  `bitcoin-cli` lives inside the macOS app bundle, one worker on spinning disks, the build's memory
+  per worker). `docs/DEFECTS.md` states the scope and closes the entries whose only subject was the
+  experimental node or a remote one. Eight one-off pixel probes whose questions are answered in
+  MEASUREMENTS and DEFECTS are removed; the checks still used stay.
+- **Donations are in two places only**: the foot of the README, in small type, and the About page,
+  where the address is a pill that copies on a click (verified in a headless browser by reading the
+  clipboard back) beside a QR of it (`scripts/donate-qr.py` generates the inline SVG and checks it
+  decodes; the rendered page's screenshot decodes to the address too). They are out of the installer.
+- **0.0.9 is the initial release number**, the operator's. The two earlier CHANGELOG sections that
+  carried version numbers were never tagged or released and are kept as dated milestones;
+  `server/main.js` reads the version from `package.json`, and `test/version.test.js` ties the
+  CHANGELOG's newest release and the README to it.
+
+### Since the 2026-09-11 milestone: added
+
+- **A node connection form**, on **Node & RPC** (operator: "Still left to do is a config connection
+  in the web settings. We have no way for users to configure a connection to their rpc backend").
+  Enter an RPC URL, a data directory, a chain and a label; **test connection** probes it with a
+  throwaway client that never touches the live node's request lane, and **save** is disabled until
+  a test has actually answered — and goes back to disabled the moment a field changes. No password
+  field: authentication is the node's own `.cookie`, found from the data directory.
+- The save is honest about two things it would otherwise hide. It **keeps the fields the form does
+  not show** — `logFile`, `systemdUnit`, the colour — because the config merge replaces arrays
+  whole, so a naive write would quietly unconfigure the log tail. And where the environment sets
+  `BLOCKYARD_NODE_URL` (a systemd drop-in, say), it says the environment beats the file rather than
+  reporting a success the next restart contradicts.
+- **The mempool page carries two panels it was already collecting data for.** `renderMempool` has
+  been writing ingest/reject figures and orphan-pool figures into elements that did not exist —
+  collected from the node's log, sent to the browser and dropped. They have cards now, and on a
+  monitor running without a log tail they say so rather than showing a column of dashes. The page
+  also lost four dead grid columns, and Pool usage gained the pool's total vsize, average vsize and
+  total fees, all of which were computed on every sample and never drawn.
+- **The grid is yours, per board** (operator: "we need to break out the green grid settings per
+  game. We should also add a grid color picker, and a transparency slider ... I really want to turn
+  down the intensity on blockanoid", and "add a color selector and brightness setting for the grid
+  lighting for blockspace"). Block space, Tetrust, Blockout and Blockanoid each get a **grid
+  colour** and a **grid intensity**, and the three games get a **grid** switch as well; Block space
+  already had one. Every board is independent, so a court can be turned right down while the board
+  stays bright. Until now the colour was hardcoded green in four separate files and could not be
+  changed at all.
+- One colour drives the whole grid rather than a single value. The board does not draw its grid in
+  one colour: it lays an opaque core under a translucent halo and glow with a brighter line along
+  the edge, and that relationship is deliberate — a see-through core reads dimmer wherever the
+  floor beneath it is shadowed, and composite modes are off the table. The picker recolours the
+  family and keeps each layer's relative weight; intensity multiplies them together.
+
+- **Tetrust**: a playable Tetris on the 3D engine (`public/js/tetris.js` for the rules,
+  `public/js/tetrust.js` for the screen). The well is the block-space board with its oblique
+  camera and curved surface; a neon-blue wireframe marks where the piece will land; cleared
+  lines fly up off the top of the canvas. Seven-bag piece order, wall kicks, the classic score
+  table times the level, ten lines a level, and a top-ten high score table kept per browser.
+  Pauses when the tab or the page loses focus. Arrows or WASD.
+- **Music and sound effects for Tetrust**, synthesised in the browser with the Web Audio API —
+  no audio files and no dependencies. Korobeiniki on a lookahead scheduler running on the audio
+  clock, and nine shaped tones for move, rotate, soft drop, hard drop, lock, line clear, tetris,
+  level up and game over. A switch for each.
+- **Blockout**: Breakout on the 3D engine, in its own tab beside Tetrust (`public/js/breakout.js`
+  for the rules, `public/js/blockout.js` for the screen). The bat follows the mouse — or the arrow
+  keys — the wall is six rows of block-space stones one grid cell each, and where the ball lands on
+  the bat decides where it goes. Three balls, a faster wall each level, and a per-browser high score
+  table. The rules file has no DOM, no clock and no randomness (a launch angle is an argument), so
+  the whole of it runs under the test suite, and the ball is sub-stepped so it cannot tunnel through
+  a brick on a slow frame.
+- **Every timed power expires after 30 seconds** — laser, wide, catch and slow, each counted down on
+  the heads-up display. Three balls and the extra life are one-shot and have nothing to run out. One
+  timer table and one expiry loop rather than four hand-written countdowns, for the same reason
+  `loseLife()` exists: separate copies of a rule drift apart. Slow puts the pace back when it lapses
+  (or "slow" would be permanent by omission) and wide restores the bat about its own centre,
+  re-gripping a held ball into the narrower span.
+- **A caught ball is locked to the bat.** It recorded no grip, so a stuck ball held its absolute
+  position while the bat slid underneath and moved only when an edge caught up with it — which read
+  as the ball drifting around. It remembers where along the bat it landed and is placed from that.
+- **The ball bounces off a minion** instead of passing through. The collision forced the ball
+  downward whatever direction it had arrived from, so dropping onto a minion pushed it further down.
+  It reflects on the axis of least penetration now, exactly as a brick does, which gives the side
+  bounces as well.
+- **Catch expires after 30 seconds.** Held indefinitely it stopped being a power-up and became a
+  different game: park the ball, aim every shot, and the rally ceases to exist. The countdown runs
+  off `step`'s own elapsed milliseconds, like the laser cooldown and the minion timer, so the rules
+  still carry no clock and a run stays reproducible. A ball still held when it lapses is released at
+  the angle its position on the bat implies, rather than stranded there with nothing to explain it.
+- **Minions, pill capsules and a bat that morphs.** The engine gained a rotated-polygon tile kind
+  (`poly` + `rot`, with optional `eyes`), built the way the sphere is — nested filled polygons,
+  since the op format has no arcs and gradients are forbidden — and claiming its own face name so
+  the sphere's "nothing but ball ops" guarantee is untouched. On it: four **minion** types with
+  their own silhouettes, spin rates and drift behaviours (a swinging cone, a tumbling cube, a
+  wobbling orb, a zig-zagging molecule), each with eyes; **capsules** are now elongated pills that
+  tumble as they fall, the angle taken from their own height rather than a clock so a frame stays
+  reproducible; and **Vaus grows cannons** and a raised housing while the laser is up, so the bat
+  shows what it can do rather than only changing colour. The capsules keep their per-capsule band
+  mark, so the seven remain separable without colour even though they now share one silhouette.
+- **An About page**, reached by clicking the BlockYard monogram in the header rather than by a nav
+  tab of its own — the bar is already full enough to wrap below 2000 px. It shows the version and
+  live build, the host's operating system, architecture, processors, memory and runtime, and the
+  Bitcoin node's own version and protocol, over the spiral galaxy the other boards draw. New
+  `GET /api/about` supplies the host facts and deliberately reports no hostname, username, network
+  address or environment: the monitor is open-access by default, so the OS and processor describe
+  the machine's shape and never its owner.
+- **A stylised BY monogram and a real gear.** The brand mark was the letter `B` in a tile; it is now
+  a drawn monogram whose tile, gradient and courses of blocks live in the SVG, so the favicon is the
+  same drawing. The settings button was a circle with eight radiating rays — the standard sun glyph,
+  which is why it read as a light/dark toggle — and is now a cog with teeth and a punched bore.
+- **The Kiosk's price panel becomes Price & order book depth.** The 24 h high, low, volume,
+  spread across books and the per-exchange table are gone; in their place is the depth chart,
+  compact and toolbar-less, fixed at ±2.5% around the mid. A wall display is read from across a
+  room, where a four-column table is unreadable and the shape of the book says more than a spread
+  figure — all of it is still on the Markets tab. The chart shares the Markets tab's single poll,
+  so having both open does not double the traffic to five exchanges, and the depth endpoint marks
+  the collector as watched, so an unattended kiosk keeps its books fresh by itself.
+- **Blockanoid**: Arkanoid on the 3D engine, the third Diversion (`public/js/arkanoid.js` for the
+  rules, `public/js/blockanoid.js` for the screen). Six hand-built walls that cycle; **silver**
+  bricks that take two hits and one more every four levels, standing lower once damaged; **gold**
+  that never breaks and never blocks a level, since a wall is cleared when its *breakable* bricks
+  are gone. Six **capsules** fall out of broken bricks — laser, enlarge, catch, slow, disrupt
+  (three balls) and player (a life) — one on the court at a time, as the
+  arcade did it. Vaus turns red while the laser is up, so the bat says what it can do. Minions
+  drift down the court and pay when destroyed. Which brick carries a capsule is a **hash of the
+  brick and the level, never `Math.random`**, so a wall always drops the same letters and the
+  whole thing is assertable under `node:test`. Capsules and minions each have a switch, and
+  because they change the rules rather than the look, flipping one reaches the game in play.
+- **Seventeen new idle effects**, bringing the total then to **26** (30 at release; above), each with its own switch:
+  shockwave, nova, fireworks, solar flare, wave, quake, code rain, sparkle, checkerboard, radar,
+  vortex, laser, power-up, combo chain, aurora, plasma and glitch. All are pure functions of the
+  tile and the effect's clock, so each replays identically and is covered by tests rather than
+  by watching.
+- **Block finishes**: **neon blocks** (a dim solid body in the block's fee-rate colour under lit
+  tubes on every visible edge) and a **metallic sheen** (a specular highlight on the lit edge of
+  each top face, a dark roll-off on the far one). Both work at every level of detail. The neon
+  tubes can take the block's own colour or one colour of your choosing, at a brightness you set.
+- **A movable lamp**: `Light` chooses straight above (now the default for Block space), upper
+  left, upper right, or from the viewer.
+- **A thickness slider for Tetrust's landing marker**, 0.3 to 2.5 times the shipped weight, so the
+  outline can be thinned out of the way of the stack behind it.
+- Broken bricks in Blockout **fly up off the court** instead of vanishing, the same launch Tetrust's
+  cleared lines take.
+- **`txindex=1` is documented as required** for the explorer's transaction pages — a transaction page
+  asks for `getrawtransaction <txid> 2` with no block hash, which a node without the index can only
+  answer for its mempool. Block pages pass the hash and are unaffected. Install, README and
+  troubleshooting all say so now.
+- **The Tetrust landing marker's colour is a setting.** The wireframe showing where the falling
+  piece will land is drawn instead of a block rather than over one, so the neon finish never
+  applied to it and it stayed the shipped blue whatever else was changed; it has its own colour
+  now, and `tiles()` takes it as an argument so the rules file still knows nothing of the store.
+- **A tabbed Display settings panel**, with all-on / all-off on the Effects tab, whose
+  twenty-six switches -- thirty now -- are a lot of clicking otherwise.
+- **Markets remembers its toolbar**: the exchange and the range are settings now, so the page
+  opens where you left it.
+
+### Since the 2026-09-11 milestone: changed
+
+- **The block being built is assembled here now, and costs your node nothing.** It used to be a
+  `getblocktemplate` call worth 1.3-1.5 s of the node's single RPC thread and 1.79 MB per reply,
+  fetched on demand so a page nobody had open did not pay it every minute. Bitcoin Core publishes
+  everything the selection needs in the `getrawmempool(true)` reply this monitor **already reads
+  every 20 s** for the mempool view: `depends`, the ancestor sizes and fees, and
+  `fees.chunk`/`chunkweight` -- Core's own cluster-mempool linearization, which is the order its
+  miner sorts by. `server/collect/gbt.js` selects greedily over that, taking each transaction with
+  its unselected ancestors, and returns the result in the shape a `getblocktemplate` reply has, so
+  the summary, the histogram, the package analysis and the block economy read it unchanged.
+
+  Measured against the node's own template on a back-to-back pair at height 966821, so the two
+  describe the same pool: **6,546 transactions / 3,995,859 weight / 643,076 sat** against the
+  node's **6,535 / 3,991,951 / 642,860** -- 0.03% apart on fees, with the set difference confined
+  to the 0.30 sat/vB margin where ties are arbitrary. Assembly takes ~50-70 ms of this process's
+  CPU. It is a reconstruction of what a miner would choose, not the node's answer: sigop limits
+  and policy the mempool does not publish are not modelled, and the card says so.
+
+  The old measurement in `docs/MEASUREMENTS.md` -- that `getrawmempool` verbose carries no
+  `depends` -- was true of the experimental node it was taken on, and is kept there with the
+  correction appended rather than rewritten.
+- **The default web port is 21000** (was 8088).
+- **Display settings are stored on the server** in `config/blockyard.json`, so a phone and a
+  desktop pointed at the same monitor agree. The browser keeps a cache so boards still draw when
+  the server cannot be reached.
+- **Block space ships with simple cubes and shadows off.** Shadows are the costliest single thing
+  the board draws, and the board is the first thing most people open; both remain one click away in
+  Display settings.
+- The two games sit at the end of the nav under a **Diversions** pop-down, rather than among the
+  working tabs.
+- The Markets energy pulse now runs along the neon price line itself, leaving an electric-blue
+  tail that fades back to yellow behind a bright head, with a nebula of blue smoke emitted along
+  the whole charged span and a shimmer over it. The lightning ball trails the same charge across
+  the block-space board; the light cycles do not.
+- The pulse's nebula is emitted over the whole charged span rather than per segment — emitting per
+  segment gave neighbouring puffs the same age, so they shared a radius and lined up into the
+  concentric rings they were meant to replace. (Its motes and crackle branches were removed at the
+  same time and restored afterwards; they are present.)
+- The Simple viewer packs the block exactly: the block's own area is solved so the tiles fill
+  the grid flush, and the remainder is tiled to the edge instead of leaving a partial top row.
+- Pool attribution moved out of the block card's body into a readable pill beneath it.
+
+### Since the 2026-09-11 milestone: fixed
+
+- **Coinbase attribution stopped permanently after one failed block.** `pumpMining` cleared the
+  whole queue on a single failure and nothing ever re-queued it, so one slow moment discarded the
+  entire 36-block boot window and the Mining page sat empty. The failed height is put back, the
+  rest of the queue survives, and a backoff decides when to retry.
+- **The block template no longer monopolises the RPC lane.** `getblocktemplate` went through as an
+  ordinary call with a 12-second freshness budget; on a node where it takes seconds, everything
+  queued behind it was stale-dropped and `/api/nextblock` took 75 s. It is now heavy, keyed and
+  given a realistic budget -- measured 52.8 s to 4.2 s on the same node.
+- **The display-settings sliders no longer jitter while dragging** (operator: "the grid intensity
+  slider jitters when I move it"). Every `input` event ran a full synchronous re-render; a drag
+  across the grid intensity control queued forty of them, each repainting a board. The value and
+  the readout still update on every event — only the repaint is coalesced, to one per animation
+  frame. All twelve range controls were affected; the new one merely made it visible.
+- **The Diversions menu renders correctly in Safari** (operator: "rendering on safari is still
+  broken. It's only showing half the drop-down contents"). The panel was inside `header.top`, which
+  is `overflow: hidden` and 46px tall, and WebKit clipped the fixed panel to it. It is a top-level
+  element now, like the settings dialog, which is the fixed overlay that always rendered correctly.
+  Its position is measured and set rather than pulled back by a transform.
+- **Display-settings sliders jumped as their value changed**: the readout's width changed with its
+  digits and pushed the slider about. The value is printed to the step's decimals in a fixed-width
+  box.
+- **The header's uptime blanked every second** and **the node you pick stays picked**.
+- **The travelling cube's perspective froze in flight** (a regression of our own, recorded).
+- **The pulse-gap simulation was flaky**: seeded now, its bound the real worst case.
+- The block-being-built card named a call it does not make; lightning stopped whiskering; the
+  paint-order comments described a camera the viewer no longer has.
+- **The star field never animated on a board that asked for no tile choreography.** `still` is
+  about the tiles; it was also returning before the animation loop started, so Tetrust's galaxy
+  repainted only when the page happened to redraw — measured at zero repaints in three seconds.
+  The loop now parks only when there is genuinely nothing moving. Measured after: 87 repaints in
+  three seconds, idle and in play.
+- **Blocks swapped in front of each other during refreshes.** Where cubes overlap, the paint
+  order is solved as a graph; a cube flying past could pull a settled pair into a tangle and the
+  tangle was ordered by depth alone, discarding the pair's own decision. A tangle now keeps the
+  relative order it had in the previous frame. Replayed over a 634-frame transition: 19 flickers
+  to none.
+- **Neon and the metallic sheen did nothing when switched on** — `render3d` never passed either
+  option through to the scene builder.
+- The galaxy is much cheaper to draw: its gas is painted once into an offscreen bitmap and drawn
+  turned, and the stars are batched by colour and brightness instead of setting a fill style per
+  star.
+- Blocks with no pool attribution showed no statistics at all.
+- Taller cubes no longer clip the neighbour they lean over on a settled board.
+- **The Explorer's Latest blocks cubes were drawn with faces that did not meet.** The top face and
+  the right face were each inset five pixels on two sides, so neither reached the top-right corner:
+  every block carried a dark triangular wedge there, a sliver of bare card at the top left and a
+  gap at the bottom right. The faces are now flush with the card and with each other.
+- **The network hash rate read "0.0 EH/s".** Two bugs, one hiding the other. The estimator divided
+  difficulty by the average block gap and left out the 2^32 hashes a difficulty-1 target expects,
+  so it was out by a factor of 4.29 billion; and the formatter's unit prefixes were each one step
+  too low, so a four-digit EH/s figure would have printed as a single-digit one. Checked against
+  the node's own `getnetworkhashps`, which the monitor had never used: the corrected estimate is
+  1111.8 EH/s against the node's 1097.9, agreeing to 1.26%. The test covering it asserted that the
+  wrong magnitude was "of the right order", which is why it survived; it now checks the figure
+  could be true rather than restating the implementation.
+
+## Milestone 2026-09-11 (labelled 0.9.0 internally; never tagged or released)
+
+Licensed Apache-2.0 from here on. The block-space packer and feerate palette
+are an original implementation (`public/js/blockpack.js`, `public/js/feepalette.js`).
+
+### Monitor
+
+- Live dashboard for one or more Bitcoin nodes over JSON-RPC, with an optional
+  log source: Overview, Chain & Sync, Mempool, Peers, Network, Mining, Events, Node & RPC and
+  Admin tabs, updated once a second over Server-Sent Events.
+- Sync viewer whose bar is blocks held over announced headers, with the node's own progress
+  shown separately and an ETA computed only from a measured rate window.
+- Block flow: projected blocks beyond the one being assembled (fee range, median, fees,
+  transaction count, time estimate), the block being built with its age ring, and recent
+  blocks linked as a chain.
+- Peer table from `getpeerinfo`: direction, transport, services, height at connect, bytes and
+  rates per connection.
+- A provenance table naming the source of every figure, and explicit "not reported" markers
+  instead of zeros.
+
+### Block space viewer
+
+- A 3D board of the next block's worth of the mempool: square tiles sized by vbytes and
+  coloured by feerate, on a curved, neon-gridded board.
+- 128 feerate colours from under 0.1 to 2,000 sat/vB, sky blue through green, yellow, orange
+  and red to purple, with neighbouring bands stepped in tone so they read apart.
+- Choreographed refreshes: blocks lift, travel in collision-free lanes and land under gravity
+  with bounces; cube-on-cube shadows; a refresh countdown and a "refresh now" button.
+- Idle effects at rest: ripples, scans, tides, cascades, twinkles, TRON light cycles and a
+  lightning ball that runs along the grid lighting the cubes it passes.
+- Viewer modes: **Simple** (the richest few hundred transactions as cubes, the rest as
+  equal pieces coloured by their feerate) and
+  **Detailed** (every transaction in the next block, one square each on a 96-unit
+  grid, drawn as low slabs, each square area-true so a full block fills the board),
+  remembered per browser.
+
+### Explorer
+
+- Search by block height, block hash, transaction id or address; every page is a shareable
+  link (`#explorer/…`).
+- Transaction pages: status, fee and fee rate with dollar values, feature badges (SegWit,
+  Taproot, RBF, consolidation, OP_RETURN, coinbase), a flow diagram from inputs to outputs,
+  inputs and outputs with links to the spent and spending transactions, copy buttons.
+- Block pages with statistics and paged transactions; address pages with balance, totals and
+  history (with the node's address index); the latest blocks as fee-coloured cubes.
+- Links into the explorer from the rest of the app.
+
+### Markets
+
+- Prices from Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, Bitfinex and OKX, fetched by the server only while
+  someone has the Markets or Kiosk tab open.
+- A 3D candle chart on a low side-on camera with a neon close line, volume band, labelled
+  price levels, a star field and light from the front right.
+- A flat candlestick chart with a crosshair readout and other exchanges overlaid; an exchange
+  table; 24 h / 48 h / 7 d ranges.
+- An order-book depth chart: cumulative bids and asks per exchange and in total, the total as
+  it stood 1–60 minutes ago, and change bars on a symmetric-log axis.
+
+### Kiosk
+
+- The 3D markets board, a price panel and the block-space board side by side, with a
+  full-screen button.
+
+### Display settings
+
+- A gear in the header opens a settings panel: shadows, idle effects, stone edges, the neon grid,
+  a star field, level of detail (full / simple cubes / flat tiles), refresh animation
+  (full / quick / none) and board curve for the block-space board; star field, density, brightness
+  and grid glow for the markets board. Kept in the browser, applied without a reload, and each one
+  changes what is drawn rather than only what is stored.
+
+### Security
+
+- Open, read-only access by default; optional accounts with scrypt hashing, hashed sessions,
+  CSRF protection, lockouts and a rotated audit trail.
+- Default-deny RPC allowlist; node writes off unless explicitly enabled per action.
+- Built-in HTTPS, multi-address binding, a CIDR gate, and a strict Content Security Policy
+  with no inline styles and no third-party assets.
+
+## Milestone 2026-09-08 (labelled 0.1.0 internally; never released)
+
+Internal first version: multi-user monitor with charts, sync viewer, mempool view, peers and
+event feed.
+
+[0.0.10]: https://github.com/BobClawblaw/blockyard/releases/tag/v0.0.10
+[0.0.9]: https://github.com/BobClawblaw/blockyard/releases/tag/v0.0.9