When the world uses ZcashDRAFT

Transaction activity by hour of day & day of week — UTC
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On-chain data has no location — that's the whole point of Zcash. So we can't show where people are. But every block carries a UTC timestamp, so we can see the daily rhythm of usage and line it up with where the sun is. Press play: the dark band is night sweeping across the planet, the dot is the sun overhead. Watch which regions are in daylight when activity rises — if most users live there, they're transacting in their waking hours.

Countries here are shaded by ZEC exchange availability — the same map as the availability page → (green = open, amber = partial, red = banned). Watch the daylight sweep: the hours where activity peaks are largely daytime in the green, open-access regions — usage and access track each other closely.

Activity by hour (UTC)

By day & hour (UTC)

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Usage vs awake population vs awake-with-access — by hour (UTC)

The awake and awake-with-ZEC-access curves are true shares of global population (left axis); Zcash activity is its share of the day's transactions (right axis). Same 24-hour UTC cycle — watch the peaks line up.

Weekly peak activity hour (UTC) — trailing year

Each week's busiest UTC hour for Zcash transactions (dots), with the transaction-weighted average hour (line). Shows whether the daily activity peak drifts over the year.
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