I checked it for a bit (until part where private key is needed) and it's cool tool. Do you have any plan to support testnet?
This is a good idea. I could add this to my list of future improvements. And testnet transactions would also make people feel safer inputting their private key.
And in general for those who were wondering, I null out the private key value after having it sign the transaction. Again, there might be other security mechanisms that I am unaware of.
an educational tool for users and newcomers to understand some of the mechanics behind a bitcoin transaction.
I've also partially tested some of the steps and since you're mostly targeting newcomers, then you might want to translate/explain some of the words from the "read more pop-up windows" even further.
A couple of suggestions:
- It'd be better if you could add decimal points to the values [it's a bit weird in its current state].
- Since one of the APIs that you're using is for Blockchain.com [FKA .info], then perhaps you could redesign the UTXO page and display them like how "they used to do it before".
- A simple separation line between each of the UTXO fields would probably do the trick as well.
Bookmarked
[I'm impressed with both of your tools] Agreed. I think I could've also added in a bit more explanatory pop-up windows that guide the user through every step live.
Thanks for bookmarking!
I also tested it out. If it's going to be simple, remove this fancy styling; it makes it look complex and in my opinion, it doesn't add anything. It may just be me, but I like to get the least css if I'm going to do a serious procedure. Carefully decorates pages about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies remind me of frauds & shitty-tokenization.
Also, it seems that I've found a bug. You can't insert burning addresses[1], possibly due to less characters. It's probably reading the addresses improperly.
[1] 1111111111111111111114oLvT2
Noted. Perhaps I should go for a more modern, minimalist look next time.
In regards to burn addresses, are burn addresses the same as normal addresses in terms of format and creation? All I know of burn addresses is that they are used to "burn" bitcoins because noone has the private keys associated to that burn address.
[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]