Ordinal Explorer
The ord binary includes a block explorer. We host an instance of the block
explorer on mainnet at ordinals.com, on signet at
signet.ordinals.com, and on testnet at
testnet.ordinals.com. As of version 0.16.0 the
wallet needs ord server running in the background. This is analogous to how
bitcoin-cli needs bitcoind running in the background.
Running The Explorer
The server can be run locally with:
ord server
To specify a port add the --http-port flag:
ord server --http-port 8080
The JSON-API endpoints are enabled by default, to disable them add the
--disable-json-api flag (see here for more info):
ord server --disable-json-api
Search
The search box accepts a variety of object representations.
Blocks
Blocks can be searched by hash, for example, the genesis block:
000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
Transactions
Transactions can be searched by hash, for example, the genesis block coinbase transaction:
4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
Outputs
Transaction outputs can be searched by outpoint, for example, the only output of the genesis block coinbase transaction:
4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b:0
Sats
Sats can be searched by integer, their position within the entire bitcoin supply:
By decimal, their block and offset within that block:
By degree, their cycle, blocks since the last halving, blocks since the last difficulty adjustment, and offset within their block:
By name, their base 26 representation using the letters "a" through "z":
Or by percentile, the percentage of bitcoin's supply that has been or will have been issued when they are mined: