It's done using webgl and additive blending of 3 light sources rendered with maxwell render. (check the console for a list of libraries used ;)
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Initially i had a implementation that didn't lock you in but tried to predict where you where going and adjusted scroll speed accordingly. While it worked pretty well the behaviour was so strange that you needed some primer before using it. So I settled on just locking you in since the design is very focused on this effect. We might redo the site with slightly different graphics and a "normal" scroll later.
So there you have it, the story of the useless, buggy, dorky dancing baloney scroll. :-)
(And yes, I spend way too much time on stuff like this)
I'll link it here if you would care to give us some feedback on it.
I've disabled the snapscrolling now on all Safari versions. Try it now! I think I'll end up disabling it everywhere since people seem not to like it that much :)
Previously I took it to mean "rich in interactivity". That's what I meant when I originally wrote that, a static site does not mean you can't have interactive content. IMHO the best way to write webapps is to have a static client that consumes an API provided by a standalone backend.
As for the transparency trick, do you have some example i can have a look at? I didn't know you can layer gif frames on top of each other like that
But since bitcoin transactions work by sending "change" back to yourself this value is not that relevant. In most cases 90% of the transaction amount is sent back as change.