[ANN] smartbit.com.au - bitcoin block explorer

[Smartbit-Charles]

smartbit.com.au

A new bitcoin block explorer crafted in Melbourne, Australia was launched on the 5th of July. We're pleased to open our beta to the public. The Smartbit block explorer has a few cool features we hope you'll enjoy.

Along with all the detail you'd expect on Blocks, Transactions and Addresses, we've added Scripts and Op-Returns.

All of our calls are pagable, filterable and sortable. You can filter, sort and page the entire block chain.

We've built real search functionality with easily searchable blocks, addresses, transactions and op-return data.

Some features added since going live:

• Mining Pools with searching. History of block count, transaction count, rewards collected - to name a few.
• Proof of existence as a detectable op-return type.  Simply paste in the hash of the document into the search to bring up the transaction. eg. 8b03d5236a840e37c50c83c83e71e42eaee0230e4e4ac7889cde92d1cb1d25e9
• University of Nicosia Academic Certificates on the Blockchain.  Like proof of existence, paste in the document hash in search to retrieve that transaction eg. 71f8291827ae0806619cddbbd648d4b82ffb2115f5f0d0224e13ad3e7b06a32d

Testnet Block Explorer
We also have a bitcoin testnet block explorer at sandbox.smartbit.com.au.  We have gone down the path of a completely separated development/test site.  This will make more sense in the future where we plan to add user accounts and many other features.  Developers and users can use this to fully test their integrations.

Type "chuck" into search to bring up jokes embedded into op-return data.  eg. sandbox.smartbit.com.au/tx/7aa2344f0dbbad7d73c5240e38d5eaba5fa0702e2cca4830efd7ecdad19a8571 - click the arrows icon on the op-return header bar to expand all the cards to read the joke.  There are many many transactions in testnet with Chuck Norris jokes.  This was quite amusing when building the site.

API and Websocket
Our API and Websocket is open and free to use for your integrations.  Please let us know if you do use it for integrations - we are very open to suggestions/changes/additions to the API to make it more usable.  The documentation on the site describes all the calls you can make - smartbit.com.au/docs. The API documentation is interactive allowing you to change variables on each call with feedback directly from our API.

API Endpoints:
Mainnet: api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain
Sandbox/Testnet: sandbox-api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain

Websocket Endpoints:
Mainnet: wss://ws.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain
Sandbox/Testnet: wss://sandbox-ws.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain
Please see documentation on how to subscribe to blocks, new transactions, addresses and confirmed transactions.

Example API calls
Here is a small sample of API calls you can craft:

Address with the biggest balance: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/addresses?sort=balance&limit=1
Address with the most transactions: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/addresses?sort=transaction_count&limit=1
Combined address balance with transactions (wallet style result): https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/address/3A1KUd5H4hBEHk4bZB4C3hGgvuXuVX7p7t,39coweGgC8CPZ6hYL1BBEfc1zqbSfHsprW/wallet
Block with the most transactions: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/blocks?sort=transaction_count&limit=1
Get op-returns for a block: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/block/365956/op-returns
Information on a mining pool and their mined blocks: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/pool/BitFury
Open assets: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/op-returns/open-asset
Proof of existence: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/op-returns/proof-of-existence
Find output script types eg. multisig: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/scripts/multisig
Find document hash via search: https://api.smartbit.com.au/v1/blockchain/search?q=8b03d5236a840e37c50c83c83e71e42eaee0230e4e4ac7889cde92d1cb1d25e9

Feel free to post any questions you may have.

All feedback is much appreciated!

Cheers,

Smartbit Team.

https://www.smartbit.com.au

[Uptrenda]

Looks great guys. Nice and simple and clean APIs for data access. Only problem I see is the text colour for the TXID input search field contrasts horribly with its background colour. Needs to be darker (?) I guess.

Have you thought about adding other cryptocurrencies?

[Smartbit-Charles]

Thanks for the feedback Uptrenda.

Can you provide a screenshot of which input box you are referring too?

We have no plans to support additional cryptocurrencies at this stage.  Our main focus is Bitcoin.

Cheers
Charles

[Kazimir]

We have no plans to support additional cryptocurrencies at this stage.  Our main focus is Bitcoin.

Awesome! Fully agree. Let's get Bitcoin mainstream first, and worry about altcoins later. Too much attention for altcoins now, will only confuse the mass audience even more about all this cryptocurrency mess.

[jacktheking]

Nice and clean interface you have there. Anyway, it look a bit weird on my machine (1360x768 resolution). Take a look at the below screenshot.

http://imgs.us/image/sD

Running Firefox 39.0 - latest version.

[Smartbit-Charles]

Nice and clean interface you have there. Anyway, it look a bit weird on my machine (1360x768 resolution). Take a look at the below screenshot.

http://imgs.us/image/sD

Running Firefox 39.0 - latest version.

Thanks Jack. Will have our UX developer work on this. Unfortunately Firefox is the odd one out in this instance

[HostFat]

Great! I just saw that it is possible to search for the op_returns.
I think that you are the only one that gives this service

[ZonedOutSpace]

Wow, I really like the UI

[Hugroll]

i gotta say the website looks amazing. i dont know if its the colour scheme or just the layout, it just looks extremely clean 

[melisande]

All have been said about this bitcoin block explorer but nothing is said about the security and safety of the coin.

[Smartbit-Charles]

All have been said about this bitcoin block explorer but nothing is said about the security and safety of the coin.

There is no user login or wallet functionality as yet ☺

[melisande]

All have been said about this bitcoin block explorer but nothing is said about the security and safety of the coin.

There is no user login or wallet functionality as yet ☺

Alright, i shall be watching this thread to monitor the progress of this masterpiece, also take note the weakness and strength of blockchain and improve on it.
Good luck

[lightenx]

I really like the Material Design on your site

[jspri3]

Thanks for the feedback on the design/UI!

Just added a heap of Charts to the site. Appreciate if you guys have any feedback on them as well, or chart/feature request.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1213435.0


Cheers,
Jarred

[Anzelm]

Looks like smartbit is gone. Does anyone know what happened?

[shaw1]

Looks like smartbit is gone. Does anyone know what happened?

It's up for me.

OP, like one of the earlier posters said, love the material design.

I very rarely consider bookmarking a page, but your site made the list.
It feels like supporting a "Mom and Pop" sort of block explorer, rather than just crawling to blockchain.info.


Do you have a method for making money?
I disabled adblock on the off chance, but there seems to be no ads.

It's a quality service, so it'd be nice if y'all were compensated for your time.