Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics

[ErebusBat]

Good question, I was just using getinfo as the most basic test.  (EDIT: getbalance fails too)

I get the same result if I use a bad password; however if I inspect the Authorization header it is the same that curl sends (on a correct password of course).

I have tried most everything I can get my hands on, the specific gem was rpcjson, but I have some very basic test code that uses no gems (just standard Ruby calls) to try and debug this:  http://pastie.org/5035939

Because this works with curl and bitcoind your service is obviously working, I would just appreciate some help in debugging as I have no idea what else to do here (and perhaps you can see more than I can).

I'll do a bit of debugging later tonight. Are you url encoding rpc_user & rpc_pass?

I tried; however I changed my password to not require it (and it didn't work anyway).  Also I inspected the authorization header value and it matched CURLs (curl -v) which did succeed.  I don't even get an error, it just drops the connection on the ground.

[freeAgent]

I'm not seeing the "confirmed only" option for some reason.

Try holding down the shift key while clicking the refresh icon. Maybe you have a cached page.

It still doesn't work, even using a browser I've never used to log in.  Weird.  I'm not really concerned about it...it's just weird.

[piuk]

For anyone who would be interested in helping with translations I have put up some string templates on github:

https://github.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Translations

At the moment only strings for the homepage have been extracted, when strings for the rest of the site are ready I will be putting up some bounties.

[salfter]

I've been trying to figure out how to attach a comment to a transaction that gets mined into the blockchain lately. I noticed there was a comment box in Blockchain.info's send-custom-transaction page, so I tried adding a comment to a sweep transaction.  The comment, though, only shows up at Blockchain.info:

http://blockchain.info/tx/e65bb346f0b0cb32111e899fffaa9c5ff7908e47d1d8c2a77dc9b20fecbb372d

It doesn't appear to have gotten embedded in the block:

http://blockexplorer.com/tx/e65bb346f0b0cb32111e899fffaa9c5ff7908e47d1d8c2a77dc9b20fecbb372d

or

Code:

bitcoind decoderawtransaction $(bitcoind getrawtransaction e65bb346f0b0cb32111e899fffaa9c5ff7908e47d1d8c2a77dc9b20fecbb372d) | less

In the latter, the output script looks like any other. Is the note embedded in an input script, or it just an entry in a table at Blockchain.info?

[Rassah]

I believe all notes were set to only be in blockchain.info, as the developers didn't want the blockchain to get spammed so as to keep it from growing to ridiculous sizes.

[scribe]

On the Pingit page, would it be possible to clarify whether the fee specified is applied before or after the BTC exchange rate shown? e.g. now it says "Enter the amount to purchase in GBP. 1 BTC = £ 7.43 (5.97% Fee)" - I'm assuming that's £7.43 *after* 5.97% deducted, but would be good to be sure.

[piuk]

I tried; however I changed my password to not require it (and it didn't work anyway).  Also I inspected the authorization header value and it matched CURLs (curl -v) which did succeed.  I don't even get an error, it just drops the connection on the ground.

I added some extra logging server side to help debug this if you could try the rpc call again.

In the latter, the output script looks like any other. Is the note embedded in an input script, or it just an entry in a table at Blockchain.info?

Yes it is just a database entry now. Briefly messages were embedded in the blockchain but the Bitcoin-Qt developers were concerned about extra bloat so it was changed.

On the Pingit page, would it be possible to clarify whether the fee specified is applied before or after the BTC exchange rate shown? e.g. now it says "Enter the amount to purchase in GBP. 1 BTC = £ 7.43 (5.97% Fee)" - I'm assuming that's £7.43 *after* 5.97% deducted, but would be good to be sure.

£7.43 is the buy price currently on gox, so that does not include the fee. On the order confirmation page it tells you the amount of BTC you will receive, if you divide the GBP amount by the BTC amount you will get the price per coin. Currently ~£7.79.

In a week or two I will evaluate the margins and reduce the fee if possible, during the dip last week we got killed by the exchange rate.

[Rotsor]

Hi!

I've added a Russian translation and sent the pull request. I'm not a professional though.

I'm not sure what resource to link to instead of weusecoins.com though because I wasn't able to find similarly good resources in Russian. Are you OK with linking to btcsec.com?

[Rotsor]

I have a feature request for the web site too! You could put the "Open brainwallet" button on the login page so the user can open his brain wallet without having to log in.

You have "Import brainwallet" already, so why not? "Open brainwallet" can now be simulated by creation of a throwaway account with subsequent import, which is not very convenient.

[piuk]

Thank you to Rotsor & Hostfat for the homepage translations. Any translators feel free to change the link on the homepage to your own website.

Translations

The site has been machine translated into 16 languages. Help is needed to improve the accuracy https://blockchain.info/wallet/translations.

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- Minor XSS vulnerability fixed on homepage. A bounty of 8 BTC was paid to the reporter.
- Mixer Performance Improvements. Transactions in and out should be faster.
- PingIt deposits should be faster (~10 seconds latency after barclays confirms).

[HostFat]

Can you also add auto_english.json ?
It's better because we can see the original words.

[piuk]

Can you also add auto_english.json ?
It's better because we can see the original words.

The original strings are in https://github.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Translations/blob/master/language.json. Many more now

[streblo]

Broken links on blockchain.info.

On the homepage if you click on the "More..." link to see more blocks, the page has many broken links. The broken links are of the form "http://blockchain.info/block-height/######." Clicking on the links sends the user to the homepage with the error, "Property 'received_time' not found on type piuk.strings.Language$Strings$Block_height"

PS. This particular Github page won't load for me; anyone else? https://github.com/zootreeves/blockchain.info

[Raoul Duke]

Thank you to Rotsor & Hostfat for the homepage translations. Any translators feel free to change the link on the homepage to your own website.

Which link are you talking about?

I may give it a go at the Potuguese translation now that the Bitcoin client is 100% on Portuguese.
Tomorrow only because now it's almost 3AM and the whisky is starting to do it's thing lol

[teste]

My native language is Portuguese Brazilian. I see someone translated to Portuguese of Portugal as you can see here: www.blockchain.info/pt
Psy could verify if the translation is correct.

[techmix]

Can you also add auto_english.json ?
It's better because we can see the original words.

The original strings are in https://github.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Translations/blob/master/language.json. Many more now

Thanks for the translations
But I think machine translating was not a good Idea.. It's better to be done by people.
Could you please add Persian to the languages? It's a RTL language (like Arabic), It will need some layout fixings. I can help you with it if you want.
By the way, the original JSON file have some errors on these lines: 249, 322, 329, 357

edit: I think there is also a typo in the README file:
"Any help with transactions would be greatly appreciated."

[Raoul Duke]

My native language is Portuguese Brazilian. I see someone translated to Portuguese of Portugal as you can see here: www.blockchain.info/pt
Psy could verify if the translation is correct.

That's a Google Translator translation, and Google Translator only "speaks" Brazillian Portuguese. lol
I'm better off doing it from scratch, really lol

[Mushroomized]

Can I claim a bounty for translating the strings into pirate english (YARR, etc?)

[Raoul Duke]

Hey, piuk, a little help please.

On https://github.com/blockchain/Blockchain-Translations/blob/master/auto_portuguese.json line 83 there are some codified characters(\u200B\u200B) which are not on the main file. Should they stay there or was it an artifact of the machine translation and they should be removed?

[knight22]

French translation is full of errors. I will correct some as soon as I will get some free time.