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Hello everybody,

I'm hosting


a blockexplorer site for all the alternative chains as well as for Bitcoin.  I started it because I thought it'd be a good idea to have them all together myself.  I hope it's useful for some of you too.  If so, consider donating to help me paying for a new dedicated server.


Enjoy it!

Cool!

Please add testnet blockchains, at least for the original Bitcoin.

I'm adding Bitcoin testnet now.  The software I'm using (Abe Search) stops the web service while building the database, so it'll take some time (hopefully not too long) to be back working.  I hope the effort and this downtime are worth and the testnet info is useful.  I might be adding other testnet chains as well in the future if there is interest (and coins?).  :-)

It's done.  Fortunatelly it didn't take as long as I expected.  The ammount of information is much smaller in the testnets than in the real chains, of course, that's probably why.

Please add Geist Geld (i.e. GG) to your block explorer page.

Thanks!

It should be possible to run a separate Abe process reading just the new datadir and writing to the same database as the web service.  Add --no-serve to have it exit as soon as it loads the new chain.  Then add the datadir configuration to your production instance and restart it.

At least, this should work.  I think there may be bugs affecting generation of unique identifiers that could derail this.  It's on the TODO.txt list ("Test for a portable "begin transaction" and use it.")  As a workaround, it should be possible to restart the loader whenever it dies and perhaps pass --commit-bytes=1 to make it save its place often.

Thank you, John.  That's very interesting.  I'll do some tests on a test box to see if I have some problems with the unique identifiers before I do it in the production server.

It would be nice if you added Geist - I'm very curious if anything other than mining and me helping some folks to get a grasp of how Escrow works is taking place, lol

Would it be of any use?  Please let me decide.

Should I add Geist Geld to http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/ (http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/)?

Yes: 16p7hr3nKhFrKz3qn2cg3Q3buEgr5yPnU9 (http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/address/16p7hr3nKhFrKz3qn2cg3Q3buEgr5yPnU9)
No: 1H51nfR4V83dhy9niUZjjXigVVYeX14qZ9 (http://blockexplorer.sytes.net/address/1H51nfR4V83dhy9niUZjjXigVVYeX14qZ9)

Would it really make any sense for someone to donate to "No"? :P

Please add geist to the explorer.

Dunno.  Try!   ;)

Why not let Lolcust post the "no" address?  It could be his "please stop this nonsense" fund.

Not saying GG is or isn't nonsense. :)

Fine with me.  Lolcust, post your address for the no and I edit my post and remove mine.    ;D

Is it also possible to run an Abe proccess which only serves the web requests and doesn't update the database?

Perhaps the unique identifiers generation problem could be solved (until the bugs are fixed) by first stoping the main proccess from updating the database (i.e. commenting ount the datadir lines in abe.conf and restarting the service), then launching the separate proccess with the --no-serve parameter, and when it's done, uncomment the datadir lines (adding the new imported chain in) and restart the service.

What do you think, John?  Would that work?

Possible, though slightly ugly.  I do it by passing "--datadir /".  Since there is never blk0001.dat in my / directory, it never loads any data, but it logs warnings.  I am thinking about making a --no-load option or removing .bitcoin as default datadir.

Yes, I think so.

That'd be great.  The "--datadir /" option might help while I add Ix and I0 back in, even when it generates some logs.

Thank you!

It worked like a charm.  It's a bit tedious to edit the two files to change the configuration, but once done, one process updates the database adding the new chains while the other serves the web requests.  I have added both I0coin and Ixcoin this way, and it seems to go very well.

Thanks a lot for the great software and all the help, John.

Good to hear!  If you have to switch configs often, I suggest creating two versions of abe.conf.  You can put the common parts in a third file and have both include it by "config FILE".  I've done this with HTTP and FastCGI configurations, for example.  I pass either "--config abe-http.conf" or "--config abe-fcgi.conf" to the program.  abe-http.conf and abe-fcgi.conf each contain a few file-specific directives and the line "config abe.conf" to pull in abe.conf, which contains all the common stuff such as db params and datadirs.

You're welcome, and thanks for testing it out.

I've added links to your block explorer on page with solved blocks statistics in Coinotron.com
Everything works nice :)

Why there is no data in blockexplorer for i0coins blocks > 42789 ?

I'm glad it helps.  Unfortunately I've know today that the internet connection to the server is going to be worked on tomorrow wednesday from 0000 to 0500 (UTM), so there will be some cuts on the service.  Let's hope it's minimun.


The I0coin daemon had crashed and I hadn't realized.  I've just restarted it, so it's coming up to the current block soon.

Thanks for noticing.

Some of the chains seem to be stuck. i0coin and ixcoin for example. Are you interested in doing a devcoin block explorer?

Just ran it, all i get is scribble.

I thought I'd take a moment to mention that many of the pools that have alternate currencies mining have links for all of their block numbers that usually lead to bitcoin blockexplorers. 

I would say this is just one of the many many sloppy things on all of the mining websites that annoys me from time to time.

Almost makes me want to make my own mining pool just to clean things like this up, but I'm sure that's a lot of work, which is why I'm fine with the pools available.

Also, doublec, your pool is clearly the best, so I'm surprise everyone hasn't just switched to yours yet :)

I'm glad to see it added to allchains.info.  Maybe that will get it some more play.

Thanks :-D I'm hoping it gets more users too.

I'm trying to add it to my signature, but think I'm failing so far.

How do you do the link in your signature?

Do:

Awesome, think I got it!

I cant seem to be reaching this site. Is it permanently down?

Yep, still down.. A shame.. *sigh*

Ente