best standalone block explorer around nowadays?

liraz

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Insight is the best standalone Bitcoin blockexplorer out there but there are a few things you should be aware of.

Some of the things I learned while migrating blockexplorer.com to Insight:

- You'll need to turn on txindex in bitcoind and reindex the blockchain database. With txindex turned on the blockchain will weigh in at around 70GB. You can't turn on pruning to save space.

- Insight filesync doesn't work with bitcoind versions 0.10 and beyond so if you're running the latest version of bitcoind you'll have to use the slower RPC sync.

- You can only sync Insight with bitcoind after bitcoind blockchain has been reindexed with txindex and fully caught up with the blockchain.

- After syncing the Insight LevelDB database will weigh in about 15% more than the bitcoind database. Currently that's about 80GB.

- Insight's testnet breaks with any reorg deeper than 6 blocks, which does occasionally happen on testnet. The only way I've found around this so far is to delete the testnet database and resync.

- If bitcoind goes down for any reason Insight does not re-establish a connection with it after it comes back up. You'll need to do that by hand.

FWIW, I'm planning on open sourcing the blockexplorer.com server configuration to make it a bit easier to roll your own.

spin

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For the OP I also discovered this thread:

Quote from: The Ferox on August 13, 2014, 03:52:59 PM

This tutorial is a step by step guide on how to install the insight bitcoin blockchain api on your local windows machine.
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spin

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I doubt it but haven't checked. It's usually something you'd install from source and customise.

Quote from: sed on October 08, 2014, 01:36:18 PM

are there any block explorers in the debian repo? Or do they all have to be installed from their respective websites?

sed

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are there any block explorers in the debian repo? Or do they all have to be installed from their respective websites?

spin

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Suspect you will have to go linux based. Don't know of non linux blockexplorers.

I have insight running for myself. Quite like it. Had some issues with NPM install initially but seemed to get it sorted.
Followed the instructions here pretty much: https://github.com/bitpay/insight/blob/master/README.md

AWSOM

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anyone?

AWSOM

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Hey,

I have a server available to install my own block explorer on for testing. I have been looking at Abe and Insight, but my knowledge of linux is really shitty and the installation of those 2 packages went even worse. Can't get it to work, too much errors -.-

Are there any new block explorer projects that I missed in the last 6 months or so?

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