The VvXx / Vortex Blockchain Explorer
TL; DR: There's a Transaction List for VTX but blockchain problems are preventing the deployment of other services.Â
Building new software on a broken foundation is hard.Â
Last week I attempted to set up a blockchain explorer for VvXx / Vortex using both Bitcoin Abe and Insight. Â Each of these explorers was having different problems in providing a complete tool which would verify individual transactions, show the contents of a wallet, and allow a user to browse the block / tx history in a linear manner. Â
I couldn't get Insight to correctly recognize the Genesis Block of the blockchain, so it was unable to retrive blockchain data. Â Abe could retrieve the blockchain data, but considered every block beyond the first to be orphaned, so these couldn't be browsed through the web frontend.Â
I tried setting up my own PHP script to make JSON-RPC calls directly to vvxxd. Â I was able to get transaction details for individual transactions, but the block hashes returned by JSON-RPC didn't match the block hashes of the blocks that were read directly off the blockchain, so there was no way to match a TX back to the block in which it originated. Â
Wallet addresses are also still coming up as "not on the network" even though RPC calls return valid-looking wallet addresses.Â
The blockchain for VTX / VvXx is badly compromised in its current state - deliberately corrupted to permit the original developer to hide a fraudulent block which generated 600,000 coins. Â There will likely need to be a hardfork to clear up these problems.