Release 0.0.8

v0.0.8

2021-10-22

• Identify Input Payload Contract (voter.cash)
• add support to recognize flipstarter transaction
• fix a tx decoder error in case of no inputs
• add a new source for exchange rates for all fiat that are not supported by kraken
• use USD as default currency
• add 1h difficulty estimate and probvide diff value for the next block
• improve pagination
• fix various layouts and display problems
• use git log --no-merges v0.0.7..v0.0.8 for a detailed list of changes

Release 0.0.7

v0.0.7

2020-11-26

• Fix coreApi.getBlockByHeight if BTCEXP_BLOCK_BY_HEIGHT_SUPPORT=true
• Fix an display error in Unconfirmed Transactions view

Release 0.0.6

v0.0.6

2020-11-25

• Auto reload of blocks list as soon as new block is detected
• Removal of more SegWit related lingo in the UI
• Fix various satoshi conversion in the UI
• Better and fixed display of the coinbase and miner tagging
• Improve difficulty history section
• Improve block stats charts
• Greatly speed up block detail page
• Reduce redis ram usage by 30%
• Automatic update of mempool info in the node status page
• Significantly improve getblock caching
• Use getblcokheader rather than getblock in the TX details page
• Support UTF8 coinbase / OP_RETURN
• Update DAA specification to reflect recent protocol upgrade (ASERTI3-2D)
• Charts: Use index mode

Many thanks to Axel Gembe (@EchterAgo) for all the work he has done to improve
the performance of the explorer so that it could be used also for BCH scalenet.

Relese 0.0.5

v0.0.5

2020-11-12

• Initial support for BUIP 129 (@dagurval)
• Add block time to the home page
• Use a more performant bitcoin-core fork library (@EchterAgo)
• Add some proto support fort testnet4 and scalenet genesis (@EchterAgo)
• Display "NO IFP" tag next blocks that signal for it
• Fix miner info overwrite caused modifying the same object (@EchterAgo)
• Fix a redis cache issue (@EchterAgo)

BCH explorer version 0.0.3

v0.0.3

2020-06-23

• 10f0ca9 Disable stack logging by default. (Dan Janosik)
• 4916dd1 more detailed network info on /node-status (Dan Janosik)
• 009dd45 testnet support from blockchair (Dan Janosik)
• 610d0a5 Updated frontend dependencies: (Dan Janosik)
• 3156888 Escape search query printed in user alert message (Dan Janosik)
• f34c2fd Restructure the list of API providers (#19) (Andrea Suisani)
• c98b63a Update mining pools data (#18) (Andrea Suisani)
• 1c41930 Bump package version to 0.0.3 (#17) (Andrea Suisani)
• 2c41038 no coinbase in average fee (#16) (Proteus)
• 5e40488 Add 2 more URLs in the "Related Sites" menu (#15) (Andrea Suisani)
• Optional querying of UTXO set summary
  • Note: this is disabled by default to protect slow nodes. Set 'BTCEXP_SLOW_DEVICE_MODE' to false in your .env file to enjoy this feature.
• More data in homepage "Network Summary":
  • Fee estimates (estimatesmartfee) for 1, 6, 144, 1008 blocks
  • Hashrate estimate for 1+7 days
  • New item for 'Chain Rewrite Days', using 7day hashrate
  • New data based on optional UTXO set summary (see note above):
    • UTXO set size
    • Total coins in circulation
    • Market cap
• 24-hour network volume (sum of tx outputs). This value is calculated at app launch and refreshed every 30min.
• Avg block time for current difficulty epoch with estimate of next difficulty adjustment
• Tweaks to data in blocks lists:
  • Simpler timestamp formatting for easy reading
  • Include "Time-to-Mine" (TTM) for each block (with green/red highlighting for "fast"/"slow" (<5min/>15min) blocks)
  • Display average fee in sat/vB
  • Add total fees display
  • Demote display of "block size" value to hover
• New data in "Summary" on Block pages (supported for bitcoind v0.17.0+)
  • Fee percentiles
  • Min / Max fees
  • Input / Output counts
  • Outputs total value
  • UTXO count change
  • Min / Max tx sizes
• New tool /block-stats for viewing summarized block data from recent blocks
• New tool /mining-summary for viewing summarized mining data from recent blocks
• Change /mempool-summary to load data via ajax (UX improvement to give feedback while loading large data sets)
• Zero-indexing for tx inputs/outputs (#173)
• Reduced memory usage
• Versioning for cache keys if using persistent cache (redis)
• Labels for transaction output types
• Configurable UI "sub-header" links
• Start of RPC API versioning support
• Tweaked styling
• Homepage tweaks
  • Remove "Bitcoin Explorer" H1 (it's redundant)
  • Hide the "Date" (timestamp) column for recent blocks (the Age+TTM is more valuable)
• New tool /block-analysis for analyzing the details of transactions in a block.* IMPORTANT: Use of /block-analysis can put heavy memory pressure on this app, depending on the details of the block being analyzed. If your app is crashing, consider setting a higher memory ceiling: node --max_old_space_size=XXX bin/www (where XXX is measured in MB).
• Lots of minor bug fixes
• New tool /difficulty-history showing a graph of the history of all difficulty adjustments

BCH explorer version 0.0.2

v0.0.2

2020-02-05

• 37b4dfd Add more miners tags (#12) (Andrea Suisani)
• 5c44c15 Update miners metadata (#11) (Andrea Suisani)
• 81599eb Change "Donations" layout and display logic (#10) (Andrea Suisani)
• dc5d867 Fix a layout problem in tools box div when RPC show is false (#9) (Andrea Suisani)
• dd04bd8 Actually set BCH as the default ticker (#8) (Andrea Suisani)
• 700395f Add chain length to the details view for an unconfirmed transaction (#7) (Andrea Suisani)
• 549e5ff Remove RBF from transaction details view (#5) (Andrea Suisani)
• f3f4e44 Decide to turn on/off RPC tools in config.js (#6) (Andrea Suisani)
• 37eda80 Add BTCEXP_UI_SHOW_RPC conf parameter to turn on/off RPC layout el… (#4) (Andrea Suisani)
• 5164e1c Fix another set quircks (#3) (Andrea Suisani)
• 10f4942 Fix a few nits in README file (#2) (Andrea Suisani)

Release 0.0.1

Initial work to port over BCH (#1)

Notorious changes:

- add support for cashaddr
- change api to fetch BCH/FIAT ratio from kraken
- fixing layout hiccups 
- change "Related Sites" menu
- remove LTC conf files
- remove a bunch of segwit related codde