Bitcoin Block Explorer

[liraz]

Welcome, liraz, and good luck to you.  It is spectacular news that BBE will be open source.  I assume you are already aware of ABE, an open-source clone of BBE; this may be an additional source of ideas for cross-pollenization.

Thanks Walter. Yes I am aware of ABE. I'm a Python fan myself and will be looking into it more closely to get some good ideas and also to see if it might be the basis for an eventual rewrite of the existing BBE code.

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[liraz]

I started rewriting the site's code but got "side tracked" around May with my main job developing TurnKey Linux. We had a release coming out, and I had already devoted more time to blockexplorer than I had originally planned so I had to put the project on the back burner.

Since then a couple of months have passed and I've decided not to delay any longer and just publish the unfinished blockexplorer.com rewrite to GitHub:

http://github.com/lirazsiri/blockexplorer
http://github.com/lirazsiri/blockexplorer-bitcoind

I plan on getting back to this as soon as possible but in the meantime
it'll probably do more good to have the code out there than hidden away
on my hard disk.

[giszmo]

Good to hear the project is still alive. If you hate monopoles, block chain.info is one right now. Support block explorer!

[liraz]

I created a new thread about the blockexplorer.com source code release here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=272977

[faiza1990]

Looking forward, I expect some options to visualize spending networks, and to see well-documented charts indicating the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem

[niko]

Looking forward, I expect some options to visualize spending networks, and to see well-documented charts indicating the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem

Yes, please - documented charts, with clearly labeled axes, digit grouping and rounding!