the block stream published on 6. December 2018, the Software behind your new block Explorer. In addition to Bech32 addresses can also view the block-stream-own-side-chain „Liquid“.
By Alex Roos
12. December 2018ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInxingemail
block stream is one of the largest companies in the Blockchain industry. In November 2018, block stream presented only a Sidechain called Liquid, which is intended to provide a further solution to the scaling Bitcoins, and then a corresponding Explorer, the Liquid supports. The company is now the cypherpunks and Adam Back behind pushes the Software to the Blockchain Explorer.
Esplora, the Explorer source: blockstream.info
Esplora is a free and open-source Software that provides the Blockchain Explorer blockstream.info . The special feature of Esplora is that, in addition to the Bitcoin Blockchain and the Bitcoin Testnet is also the in-house Liquid Blockchain is displayed. In addition, Esplora also supports Bech32, the SegWit-native address format, and the peg between Bitcoin and Liquid, and Confidential addresses in Liquid and a Light Mode for private use.
Blockstream.info Blockchain Explorer source: blockstream.info
The Blockstream.info the Blockchain Explorer is simple and easy. Because without a lot of bells and whistles that the Explorer shows the blocks of the Blockchain. This is particularly useful for end-users who want to check how your Bitcoin transaction looks like in the Blockchain. In the search box, you can see the Blockchain, specifically according to the block height, Hash, transaction, and/or address scour Within a block, the transactions will be listed, and by clicking on Details gives additional information about the transaction.
source: blockstream.info
especially for beginners it can be quite interesting to do once in this way, the Blockchain technology and to take a look under the hood of Bitcoin.
Below-the-line block-stream not with Esplora only a technological infrastructure for the viewing of the Liquid-Sidechain, but provides users with a point of contact to track Bech32 addresses. Because not everyone Blockchain Explorer supports the new address format.