Every once in a while, Steemd receives a pretty heavy load and becomes unreliable. During these times, I often go looking for a clean interface where I can do some basic looking into transactions on the STEEM blockchain.
To address this issue, I have created the new STEEM Block Explorer where you can enter a Transaction ID and see the information/operations associated with it.
Coming Soon
I am going to add a lot of new functionality to the site over the coming weeks. If you have any great ideas that you would like to see on the site then let me know. I would like to keep the interface very simple and clean, while providing an efficient method for searching the STEEM blockchain.
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