Software company · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Software, infrastructure, and careful public work for the DigiByte network

Around The Block is a software company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We build DigiByte products, help keep network infrastructure running, publish free public research on theft tracing, and offer point-in-time website security reviews. If you publicly build or maintain a DigiByte project, that review is free.

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Proof

Results the teams delivered

Mark McNiel has led retail stores for more than 25 years.

Mark McNiel on LinkedIn

Two turnarounds show the pattern most clearly. The results belong to the teams that did the work. This record is about how he has led. It is not a consulting offer.

Pasadena: the store that could not keep a manager became the store that trained them

The problem

Five managers had been fired in the three years before he arrived.

What he did

He rebuilt the store as a training ground and developed assistant managers who went on to run stores. New executives were later onboarded through this store.

The result

The store finished best in the district on sales in both of his years there. It became the region's training store for new executives. After the turnaround, he ran the district for five months and trained the incoming district manager.

A store unprofitable for 18 years, profitable in 12 months

The problem

A Macy's store had been unprofitable for 18 years.

What he did

He diagnosed with data, fixed the people system, and made the plan executable on the floor.

The result

The store became profitable within 12 months. The result belongs to the team that did the work.

He ships working software.

Around The Block builds and runs software that people can actually use. The products and infrastructure already on this site are the evidence.

The same habit shows up in the software we ship.

Products

HoldFast Wallet

Android · Non-custodial · Open source

A self-custody mobile wallet for DGB and DigiDollar on Android. Your keys are generated and stored on your phone, and sync runs on BIP157/158 compact block filters, so your addresses never leave your device. Formerly ATB Wallet. Coming to Google Play. An iOS version is in development.

Independent wallet by Around The Block LLC. Not an official DigiByte app.

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DigiScope

Explorer · Analytics · Education

A block explorer, on-chain analytics platform and education site for the DigiByte network. It includes exchange and network analytics. Trace addresses and transactions, browse DigiAssets, and learn how the chain works. Free to read, with no account required.

DigiScope is a hosted service, and DigiScope tip balances are held in a DigiScope-managed wallet, as described in our Terms.

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Website security review

Independent · Point-in-time · Free for DigiByte builders

An independent, point-in-time look at a public website, with human-reviewed findings and suggested fixes. Free for people who publicly build or maintain a DigiByte project. Other projects are follow-up only. It is not monitoring, not a certification, and not a guarantee that the site is secure.

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Infrastructure

DigiByte network infrastructure

Part of the DigiByte community for more than eight years. Alongside the products, this work helps keep the network running.

Runs a seeder node for the DigiByte network.
Maintains a public Electrum endpoint for $DGB. Updated Electrum servers for DigiByte.
Built a Rosetta server implementation, in partnership with AI.
Independently built, verified and signed the DigiByte Core 8.22 release.
Tested the 9.26 release and contributed bug reports and fixes that shipped in the final version.
Takes part in the current DigiByte developer chats on Gitter.
Maintains and secures the price oracles that DigiDollar minting depends on.
Can trace stolen funds on-chain.