!!! Announcing Abe, the open-source block chain browser !!!
While theymos' Bitcoin Block Explorer has served us well, there are benefits that can only be had by an open-source version of this critical Bitcoin infrastructure.
- Privacy: you can view information without revealing your interest in it.
- Extensibility: you can add features that you want.
- Trust: you can audit the source code.
- Reliability: you can run it on your own server free of charge.
Abe provides much of Block Explorer's interface, including the list of recent blocks, a search tool, and detailed block, transaction, and address history pages. Abe can also present multiple currencies such as Bitcoin, Namecoin, Tenebrix, and whatever FooCoin tomorrow may bring. Abe lets you page back and forth in the block list and presents some new statistics like Average Coin Age.
Abe's interactive performance approaches Block Explorer's, though it is untested under BBE loads. Abe supports a subset of Block Explorer's API.
Source code on Github: https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe
Demonstration site: http://abe.john-edwin-tobey.org/ (
Requirements: Python and an RDBMS; tested with PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, ODBC, and DB2.
Donations: 1PWC7PNHL1SgvZaN7xEtygenKjWobWsCuf (BTC) and NJ3MSELK1cWnqUa6xhF2wUYAnz3RSrWXcK (NMC).
Enjoy!
December 6, 2012: Version 0.7.2 released.
August 31, 2011: Version 0.6 released.
August 16, 2011: Version 0.5 released.
July 15, 2011: See changes since July 4.