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Greetings fellow cryptocurrency-fanatics,

At Anycoin Direct we have started to create essential guides for new cryptocurrency users to learn about the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
We believe these short guides will help new users in understanding this technology and making sure their funds are safely stored and transferred.

This newly published guide is about block explorers and how you can use them to track transactions. After someone has created a transaction on the bitcoin network, they will receive a transaction ID (TXID).
Our article aims to teach new users how they can use any TXID to track a transaction within a block explorer and view the specific details.

We have published this guide on Medium, here (https://medium.com/@Anycoindirect/tracking-your-transaction-in-the-bitcoin-block-explorer-feee8da72956) is the link to the article.
This guide is the second article we have written and we would appreciate it if you could provide us with any feedback.

With kind regards,
The Anycoin Direct team

This guide wi surely help newbies to track transactions and the hackers wallet address if hacked or scammed, something like that will be put to good use for tracking purposes in the future.

Great article, also very good use of images to clarify.
Looking forward to other articles (?)

It's a good one but you missed two things:

1) If you click the green or red button, you'll be able to toggle/switch between BTCitcoin and USD (ex. click this (http://oi64.tinypic.com/20zzeiv.jpg) [shows the current value]).
2) You can also see the true value of each transaction (at the time of receiving them) by hovering over each amount (ex. click this (http://oi65.tinypic.com/spkplf.jpg)).

it will change the value based on your history using the  cookies blockchain.info is storing on your computer. for instance if you are from Switzerland and set your currency as Frank then whenever you click the transaction value it will show it to you in CHF
example: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/8979457dd8d74a87af996b6fc4b8a8f55ffb8547561835c2921d90a303ae3dc3?currency=CHF
if you click the link then from that point on it will show you the values in CHF. if you want to change it back either add the ?currency=USD at the end or switch it by using the list at the bottom of the page above advanced view

Thank you both for your feedback, we will add this feature to the next version of the article.

We greatly appreciate your input!