While it is a barebones block explorer at the date, it is still a welcome addition to the ecosystem. Tobias Ruck, founder of the be.cash project and programmer of the explorer, talked with eCash news about his reasons for creating this piece of software and the features he plans to add to it.
Origins Of The Be.cash Explorer
Ruck explained the be.cash explorer is the result of a series of experiments he did with SLP on top of the Bitcoin Cash ABC protocol after the split between BCH and BCHA happened. Ruck needed a quick, no-frills explorer for its SLP projects, and that is how be.cash explorer was born. Ruck stated:
“There was a whole bunch of features missing that I often needed and now I just added them to the explorer”
These features included getting complicated values that normal explorers didn’t provide at the time. This made him code his explorer to have an easier way of knowing these values. Ruck told that:
“Other explorers hide the BCH amount if a TX it has an SLP output. Since some stuff I was doing put both BCH and SLP into one UTXO, that's very annoying. I also wanted to get the raw tx hex for the transaction and the raw hex for each input and output, which I added.”
To Ruck, the performance of the explorer was important, so he made it as light as it could be without losing its important functionality. Ruck stressed:
“I wanted the explorer to be very fast and simple, so I implemented it in Rust and RocksDB without any superfluous fancy styles and advertisements. Very different from other explorers, which can take quite some time to load a transaction.”
Current State of The Explorer
The be.cash explorer is now the main independent explorer of the eCash ecosystem after eCash was rebranded on July 1st, 2021. It now displays amounts in XEC and also supports the new eCash address format designed to avoid confusion with other bitcoin forks. If you use the Cashtab wallet, you already know this explorer, because the wallet uses it to show details about transactions and amounts sent and received.
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