Fsight closed - Now explorer.feathercoin.com

AcidD

update…Ok so I’m failing pretty miserably at the moment.

the iquidus block explorer isn’t that hard to set up. The issue I have is the way it syncs to the DB. That script doesn’t work so well. after trying to sync the DB twice and almost a week later…I’ve dropped Iquidus.

I’m looking into the insight API/UI that sits ontop of bitcoinD. I’ve seen Lizhi has done it for block.ftc-c.com.

I managed to get the insight API working fine and syncing with the ftc node i have. My issue is installing the insight UI ontop of that. and my experience with node js is very minimal…

This is hard.

AcidD

Maybe I spoke to soon. I started from the ground up this morning.

1 - new Centos 7 Minimal Installation
2 - git clone master branch insight API and insight UI from:
https://github.com/bitcoin-blockexplorer/insight-frontend.git
https://github.com/bitcoin-blockexplorer/insight-api.git

3 - fucked around with node JS and painfully edited the front-end, replacing BTC/Bitcoin branding with FTC/Feathercoin branding.
4 - commented out the currency dropdown menu. (it’s nice to have but I’m not a developer/dont have the brains to dive into that)
5 - edited these two files
/insight-api/config/config.js
/insight-api/node_modules/bitcore/networks.js

For networks.js I had to find the the necessary information for the FTC genesis block and some other details. .< That stumped me for ages until I remembered FTC shares the same genesis block as LTC…the below seems to have worked.

exports.livenet = {
name: 'livenet',
magic: hex('fbc0b6db'),
addressVersion: 0x30,
privKeyVersion: 0xb0,
P2SHVersion: 5,
hkeyPublicVersion: 0x0488c42e,
hkeyPrivateVersion: 0x0488e1f4,
genesisBlock: {
  hash: hex('E2BF047E7E5A191AA4EF34D314979DC9986E0F19251EDABA5940FD1FE365A712'),
  merkle_root: hex('D9CED4ED1130F7B7FAAD9BE25323FFAFA33232A17C3EDF6CFD97BEE6BAFBDD97'),
   height: 0,
   nonce: 2084524493,
   version: 1,
   prev_hash: buffertools.fill(new Buffer(32), 0),
   timestamp: 1317972665,
   bits: 504365040,
 },

So far in two separate terminals i’m running these commands to start the two services (API and front-end UI)
I have both the API and UI downloaded like so

/root/insight/insight-api
/root/insight/insight-frontend

The two commands are

INSIGHT_NETWORK=“livenet” INSIGHT_PUBLIC_PATH=public node insight.js

INSIGHT_PUBLIC_PATH=insight-frontend/public grunt

both need to be run from their own directory.

Anyways…I digress… http://i.snag.gy/hribQ.jpg

it’s synced around 10% of the FTC block chain.

I need to redo a few things so that the API and Front-end run as services and then i’m all good :-)

AcidD

Its Alive!!!

http://ftc.chain.tips/

I might write a tutorial if there’s enough interest…this was a pain in the ass but a fun learning experience.

AmDD

@aciddude Nice work! If you have time, Id like to see a tutorial on this.

I have to say I like the look of the other one better but this isnt bad at all.

lizhi

Good , I have a same website http://block.ftc-c.com/

AcidD

Thanks guys.
I’ve added an updating chart using some simple javascipt to get the current mining difficulty.

http://i.snag.gy/sJLv8.jpg

@lizhi, I’ve just noticed you’re using a Bushtars fork of insight…which I never knew existed! I assume all the config for featherCoin is already done ? …Maybe I should switch over.

I used used the fork from Block-Explorer…and then painfully edited…

AcidD

http://fsight.chain.tips/ it’s alive (again)

AmDD

@aciddude said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

http://fsight.chain.tips/ it’s alive (again)

down?

AcidD

@AmDD said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

@aciddude said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

http://fsight.chain.tips/ it’s alive (again)

down?

Thanks @AmDD - I’ll be bringing this up when I get some time.

Sorry again guys! The FTC full node is up, it’s just the Block Explorer/API that keeps crashing.

Wellenreiter

@aciddude said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

Sorry again guys! The FTC full node is up, it’s just the Block Explorer/API that keeps crashing.

Probably you mentioned it already, but what software you are using for the block explorer?
I’m using the Abe explorer on explorer.feathercoin.com

AcidD

@Wellenreiter said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

@aciddude said in Feathercoin Block Explorer....it's Alive! Update: Added live difficulty chart:

Sorry again guys! The FTC full node is up, it’s just the Block Explorer/API that keeps crashing.

Probably you mentioned it already, but what software you are using for the block explorer?
I’m using the Abe explorer on explorer.feathercoin.com

Yo, @Wellenreiter I’m using the below

https://github.com/bitcoin-blockexplorer/insight-frontend.git
https://github.com/bitcoin-blockexplorer/insight-api.git

I had to edit a lot of configs and whatnot to make it work with FTC. it runs on node.js but it doesnt seem so stable. but my knowledge of nodeJS is limited.

Wellenreiter

I never got the insight explorer running :(
It has a nice Web interface, but I switched to the Abe one, as that one runs on top of Apache and mysql.

If you get your one stable I’m happy to switch to the Insight explorer on explorer.feathercoin.com

AcidD

@Wellenreiter

I swear @Bushstar ported an older version of insight for FTC - check his github. I think Lizhi uses that code.

AcidD

Hi All

This has been up and down for a few months now. I’ve redone the config and a proper proxy etc.

http://fsight.chain.tips/

next steps are to add HTTPS and possibly move it to a bigger VPS if there’s a considerable increase in traffic.

I also want to add google analytics or something similar to it.

sradics

@aciddude cool :-)

wrapper

Very cool news!

AcidD

December 2016 Updates:

Updated/Refreshed colour scheme to match Feathercoin forum (mainly to move away from the default green)
Modified code to show a Decoded Version of the block info so we can read OP_RETURN (Comments on the Blockchain)

Read a comment on the block chain:

1 - Find a transaction with a comment, example below
http://fsight.chain.tips/tx/96d954dc26873558507533822581aa7f3a8a57df9d3cdb1f1fd4c272ba22ffae

2 - Click the plus + button on the Transation (under Details) and scroll down.

You should see:

Decoded Message

Wrapper - Saturady 16th July 2016

AcidD

More December updates:

Added SSL from LetsEncrypt.org
Automated redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
Disabled SSLv3
added Google Analytics for fun :-)

The Qualys SSL Labs gives me an A :-) !! WOOP!
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=fsight.chain.tips

I used the CertBot application to automatically deploy the LetsEncrypt SSL Certificate to my Apache Config
https://certbot.eff.org/#centosrhel7-apache

https://letsencrypt.org/

Took about 15 mins reading and 15 mins implementation time to get the site secured with SSL.
Their certificates expire every 90 days…BUT! CertBot provides a script which you add to a cron job that automatically updates it for you. Amazing!

Wellenreiter

Great work :)

AcidD

Hi All,

This has also been added to CoinMarketCap.com under “Explorer 2” :-) !!!
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/feathercoin/