Ethereum

Releasing ESPLR - a local ETH block explorer.

Big problem of ecosystem is reliance on 3rd party RPCs (infura, alchemy, quicknode). Also reliance on 3rd party explorers (etherscan). They track users: it makes system one big panopticon.

Local nodes can make the situation better!

PC with an archive node only costs $40/mo or $500 one-time. Esplr only needs RPC URL of an archive node. It can view transactions, account balances and token transfer history (unique feature). https://github.com/paulmillr/esplr

$500 archive node? That seems low. My nucs were like $800 and they were not very good archive nodes. A quality tlc nvme drive is $279 by itself. And you really shouldn't be cheap on that most important part of a build. 

https://a.co/d/hrPUIpd

I really do like otterscan though. And I'm curious how this compares.

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Isn't that a QLC drive? I've had two of those fail running archive nodes. Spend the money on a TLC.

Otterscan never supported token transfers or balances.

Spec below will so its job. It depends on your needs but it is enough to run esplr. Bottlenecks are anyway lack of indexes (software).

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