Testnet block explorer
7 messages, 27 Dec 2013 to 16 Feb 2014. Started by Mike Hearn.
Melvin Carvalho (2), Eric Lombrozo (2), Mike Hearn, Mike Belshe, Matias Alejo Garcia
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.
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:
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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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics > Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >
On 27 December 2013 19:08, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe•com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> > 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. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics >> Pro! >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics > Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >
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:
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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/ > > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
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:
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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. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >
On 27 December 2013 19:05, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
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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. >
Some more information on testnet3 explorers ...
Here is a free software testnet explorer based on javascript/node
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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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:
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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)." > > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT >> organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance >> affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your >> Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics >> Pro! >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 > Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. > Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. > Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge•net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >