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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Block explorers oligopoly.
by
ETFbitcoin
on 30/05/2021, 11:17:33 UTC
scantxoutset

You can run a pruned node on your machine locally and scan for UTXO's for ANY address (doesn't have to be imported to your wallet) by using the scantxoutset command. It takes a few minutes, but not nearly as long as a rescan. Doesn't take up a ton of space, and better than using a blockexplorer.

But for most people it's worse because they want to get the result within few seconds. IMO self-hosted block-explorer is better option. There are few self-hosted block-explorer such as BTC RPC Explorer which support pruned node.