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BTC Explorer

Simple, stateless Bitcoin blockchain explorer, via RPC. Built with Node.js, express, bootstrap-v4.

This tool is intended to be a simple, stateless, self-hosted explorer for the Bitcoin blockchain, driven by RPC calls to your own bitcoind node. This tool is easy to run but lacks features compared to full-fledged (stateful) explorers.

I built this tool because I wanted to use it myself. Whatever reasons one might have for running a full node (trustlessness, technical curiosity, etc) it's helpful to appreciate the "fullness" of a node.

Features

List of recent blocks
Browse blocks by height, in ascending or descending order
View block details
View transaction details, with navigation backward via spent outputs
View raw JSON output used to generate most pages
Mempool/unconfirmed transaction counts by fee (sat/B)

Getting started

Prerequisites

Install and run a full, archiving node - instructions. Ensure that your node has full transaction indexing enabled (txindex=1) and the RPC server enabled (server=1).
Synchronize your node with the Bitcoin network.

Instructions

Clone this repo
npm install to install all required dependencies
Optional: Uncomment the "bitcoind" section in env.js to automatically connect to the target node.
npm start to start the local server
Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3002/
Connect using the RPC credentials for your target bitcoin node (if you didn't edit env.js in Step 3)