First Bits? Any support left?

[OgNasty]

I don’t think the major block explorers have supported search by first bits for quite some time now. I don’t think we need to get into the reasons why, but I’m wondering if any service out there still supports a search by first bits, even if it is just using historical data and isn’t kept up to date. Anyone know of such a thing?

[nc50lc]

AFAIK, mempool.space added that feature not so long ago.
But it's easy to miss because the partial match addresses don't always show, the firstbits has to be clicked sometimes.

Another one is walletexplorer, but it's more of an address-matching tool than a blockexplorer.
It's also limited to one result even if there are two or more matches.

[apogio]

AFAIK, mempool.space added that feature not so long ago.
But it's easy to miss because the partial match addresses don't always show, the firstbits has to be clicked sometimes.

They have indeed and it works good for me. I haven't had an address that I 'd search for but couldn't find it. Of course it doesn't work for addresses without any transactions. But that's obvious since they haven't been broadcast.

[OgNasty]

AFAIK, mempool.space added that feature not so long ago.
But it's easy to miss because the partial match addresses don't always show, the firstbits has to be clicked sometimes.

Another one is walletexplorer, but it's more of an address-matching tool than a blockexplorer.
It's also limited to one result even if there are two or more matches.

Thanks. That did the trick. Now I can look at the coins I lost the keys to many years ago.

Trying to decide if I should attempt to repair an old hard drive to try and recover the coins or not. Looks like I should probably check into it. I’ve been hanging onto it for more than a decade but I think the time may have finally come.