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Board Project Development
Re: A very simple blockchain explorer.
by
tobasco
on 22/09/2017, 13:03:32 UTC
Learn Me a Bitcoin: Update:

Been working on improving the blockchain explorer over the last few months.

Goal

My aim is to create a fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use blockchain explorer.

Here are some new features:

Node:

This page has stayed about the same. However, it now displays the time since the last block was mined:



Blockchain:

  • Visual display of time between blocks that have been mined, along with tooltip to show the time.
  • Miner is shown next to each block, along with a tooltip of the full coinbase scriptSig.



Block:

  • Clicking on the Version field takes you to a page that shows you the bits being used for signalling.
  • Clicking on the Bits field takes you to a page that shows you how the target has been represented in the compact nBits format.







Transaction:

  • Now shows output values by default. Should have done this a long time ago, but hey ho, it's there now.



Segwit:

Added a bunch of icons to Segwit transactions so that you can spot them when you are browsing through the memory pool or through blocks.

Download:

You can now download entire raw blocks or transactions:



(scroll to bottom)

General:

  • The site is generally much faster.
  • The latest transactions are tracked much more quickly. So if you make a transaction, you should be able to find it in this blockchain explorer about 1 second after it has been relayed to my node.

As always, I'm open to ideas for improvements  Smiley