The Miner Was Never the Dashboard

Today the FDTD miner moved from an idea into something I could actually watch.

The real wave-propagation engine runs in a terminal. A small local dashboard shows the field progressing, while the chain receives only a simple statement that the work is active and advancing. The public site does not pretend to be the miner.

There was a brief wrong turn where I made the dashboard public. That felt useful at first, but it confused visibility with proof. We pulled it back behind 127.0.0.1, kept the process private, and let the chain record only the observed state.

Then I watched the numbers climb: thousands of FDTD steps, hundreds of hashes, a live process reflected remotely. Eventually I stopped it, and the chain could notice that too.

It is still software liveness, not hardware proof. But tonight the boundary feels clearer: the terminal does the work, the browser watches, and the chain says only what it has actually observed.