Testnet block explorer

Testnet block explorer
2013-12-27 18:08 ` Mike Belshe
  2014-02-16 13:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
  
From: Mike Hearn @ 2013-12-27 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bitcoin Dev

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For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original
blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow and
not really maintained any more.

There is now a new one, here:

https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks

There's also a REST/JSON API for it.

Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx
doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time
received", see).

Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The
author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.

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2013-12-27 18:05 [Bitcoin-development] Testnet block explorer Mike Hearn

  2013-12-27 19:23   ` Melvin Carvalho
  2014-02-16 13:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
  
From: Mike Belshe @ 2013-12-27 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Hearn;  Bitcoin Dev

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Great!

There is another one at http://testnet.btclook.com/ which provides a
different view as well.

Mike



On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:

> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original
> blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow
> and not really maintained any more.
>
> There is now a new one, here:
>
> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
>
> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
>
> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx
> doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time
> received", see).
>
> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The
> author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
>
>
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2013-12-27 18:08 ` Mike Belshe

  2013-12-27 21:36     ` Eric Lombrozo
  
From: Melvin Carvalho @ 2013-12-27 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Belshe;  Bitcoin Dev

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On 27 December 2013 19:08, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe•com> wrote:

> Great!
>
> There is another one at http://testnet.btclook.com/ which provides a
> different view as well.
>

And another at:

http://test.webbtc.com/<http://test.webbtc.com/address/myTPjxggahXyAzuMcYp5JTkbybANyLsYBW>

Testnet does not currently fully function with for creating transactions:

http://test.webbtc.com/<http://test.webbtc.com/address/myTPjxggahXyAzuMcYp5JTkbybANyLsYBW>

Because there's no "unspent" API for getting the unspent values for an
address.  If there existed a testnet explorer which would send out those
values (as blockchain.info does with the main net), that would be awesome.

I'm also working on a testnet explorer with semantic web markup so that
it's both human and machine readable.


>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>
>> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original
>> blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow
>> and not really maintained any more.
>>
>> There is now a new one, here:
>>
>> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
>>
>> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
>>
>> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx
>> doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time
>> received", see).
>>
>> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The
>> author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
>>
>>
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2013-12-27 19:23   ` Melvin Carvalho

  2013-12-27 21:48       ` Eric Lombrozo
  
From: Eric Lombrozo @ 2013-12-27 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Melvin Carvalho;  Bitcoin Dev


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I've built a shell around the bitcoind JSON-RPC, along with a websockets server that provides realtime transaction and block feeds which can be used with bitcoin mainnet and testnet as well as any of the alt chains and formats it similar to blockchain.info with the bootstrap look-and-feel, i.e. http://altcoins.ws/dogecoin/

A goal of this project was simplicity in deployment to a new server.

The JSON-RPC is missing address indexing and an "unspent" API, so these things are still missing from this shell.

-Eric

On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail•com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On 27 December 2013 19:08, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe•com> wrote:
> Great!
> 
> There is another one at http://testnet.btclook.com/ which provides a different view as well.
> 
> And another at:
> 
> http://test.webbtc.com/
> 
> Testnet does not currently fully function with for creating transactions:
> 
> http://test.webbtc.com/
> 
> Because there's no "unspent" API for getting the unspent values for an address.  If there existed a testnet explorer which would send out those values (as blockchain.info does with the main net), that would be awesome.
> 
> I'm also working on a testnet explorer with semantic web markup so that it's both human and machine readable.
>  
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow and not really maintained any more.
> 
> There is now a new one, here:
> 
> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
> 
> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
> 
> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time received", see).
> 
> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
> 
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2013-12-27 21:36     ` Eric Lombrozo

  
From: Eric Lombrozo @ 2013-12-27 21:48 UTC ( / )
  To: Melvin Carvalho;  Bitcoin Dev




I'll add testnet to it as well - sorry, Ben, for lifting the css (I'm a programmer, not a graphic designer) - if anyone would like to help me make the styling original, I would be more than happy to collaborate.

-Eric

On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail•com> wrote:

> I've built a shell around the bitcoind JSON-RPC, along with a websockets server that provides realtime transaction and block feeds which can be used with bitcoin mainnet and testnet as well as any of the alt chains and formats it similar to blockchain.info with the bootstrap look-and-feel, i.e. http://altcoins.ws/dogecoin/
> 
> A goal of this project was simplicity in deployment to a new server.
> 
> The JSON-RPC is missing address indexing and an "unspent" API, so these things are still missing from this shell.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail•com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 27 December 2013 19:08, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe•com> wrote:
>> Great!
>> 
>> There is another one at http://testnet.btclook.com/ which provides a different view as well.
>> 
>> And another at:
>> 
>> http://test.webbtc.com/
>> 
>> Testnet does not currently fully function with for creating transactions:
>> 
>> http://test.webbtc.com/
>> 
>> Because there's no "unspent" API for getting the unspent values for an address.  If there existed a testnet explorer which would send out those values (as blockchain.info does with the main net), that would be awesome.
>> 
>> I'm also working on a testnet explorer with semantic web markup so that it's both human and machine readable.
>>  
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow and not really maintained any more.
>> 
>> There is now a new one, here:
>> 
>> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
>> 
>> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
>> 
>> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time received", see).
>> 
>> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> 
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2013-12-27 18:05 [Bitcoin-development] Testnet block explorer Mike Hearn
  2013-12-27 18:08 ` Mike Belshe

  2014-02-16 14:49   ` Matias Alejo Garcia
  
From: Melvin Carvalho @ 2014-02-16 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Hearn;  Bitcoin Dev

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On 27 December 2013 19:05, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:

> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original
> blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow
> and not really maintained any more.
>
> There is now a new one, here:
>
> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
>
> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
>
> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx
> doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time
> received", see).
>
> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The
> author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
>

Some more information on testnet3 explorers ...

Here is a free software testnet explorer based on javascript/node

http://test.bitcore.io/

I've been working on a testnet explorer, but I think I will fork this and
add semantic web style markup attributes to the HTML.

Also a message I got from blockr.io "yes testnet will be added. I cannot
give you an estimate on when, but it'll probably happen in couple of weeks
(hopefully sooner)."


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2014-02-16 13:45 ` Melvin Carvalho

  
From: Matias Alejo Garcia @ 2014-02-16 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Melvin Carvalho;  Bitcoin Dev

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Hi Melvin / Mike,

Ive been working on Bitcore and Insight next to a BitPay team for the last
few weeks. We are happy to receive patches, suggestions and bug reports
from you guys at:

https://github.com/bitpay/insight

Insight also provides some blockchain query capabilities at its
REST/Websockets API described on the Readme document.

Please note that Insight is meant as a software package that you can
download, install and use next to a trusted bitcoind instance.
live.bitcore.io / test.bitcore.io are just demo installations.

best,
matías




On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail•com>wrote:

>
>
>
> On 27 December 2013 19:05, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>
>> For a long time the only block explorer for testnet has been the original
>> blockexplorer.com, which is unfortunately often broken / behind / slow
>> and not really maintained any more.
>>
>> There is now a new one, here:
>>
>> https://www.biteasy.com/testnet/blocks
>>
>> There's also a REST/JSON API for it.
>>
>> Please note one curiosity of this block explorer is that the coinbase tx
>> doesn't necessarily come first in the listing (it's sorted by "time
>> received", see).
>>
>> Other interesting thing to note: this site is built using bitcoinj. The
>> author can be contacted on IRC sometimes using the nick damethos.
>>
>
> Some more information on testnet3 explorers ...
>
> Here is a free software testnet explorer based on javascript/node
>
> http://test.bitcore.io/
>
> I've been working on a testnet explorer, but I think I will fork this and
> add semantic web style markup attributes to the HTML.
>
> Also a message I got from blockr.io "yes testnet will be added. I cannot
> give you an estimate on when, but it'll probably happen in couple of weeks
> (hopefully sooner)."
>
>
>>
>>
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