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By Alexander Reed
Last Updated: Mar 12, 2025
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “block explorer” or “Blockchain browser” before but didn’t understand what it means.
A block explorer allows you to search and navigate through the block chain. Using a block explorer you can check the balance of different Bitcoin public addresses, track coin transfer histories watch how many confirmations a transaction has and get a wide variety of statistics about the network such as the current hash rate and more.
For each block chain there is a different block explorer – so for example you won’t be able to use a Bitcoin block explorer in order to examine Litecoin’s blockchain unless you use a multi-blockchain block explorer like Blockchair.
Usually the block explorer software will supply some or more of the following:
Here’s an example of how to examine a public Bitcoin address using the most popular block explorer today blockchair.
I just paste the public address into the block explorer and now I can see how many Bitcoins this wallet holds and its recent transactions.
If I click on a specific transaction a can see details about this transaction such as when it was received, the number of confirmations it has or when it is estimated to be confirmed, the inputs and outputs of this transaction and how many Bitcoins were transferred.
Blockchair – The most versatile and robust blockchain explorer on the market. This platform allows users to search across 43 different blockchains and has multiple additional features such as portfolio trackers, ENS lookup, transaction receipts, wallet statements, node explorers, datasets, news aggregation and more. You can learn everything you need to know about it in our detailed Blockchair Review.
Blockchain.info – One of the most popular Bitcoin block explorers today. The company also provides a very popular (and recommended) Bitcoin wallet.
Blockr.io – A multi-currency block explorer. Used not only for Bitcoin but also for Litecoin, Peercoin and more. On August 2014 Coinbase purchased Blockr.io (mainly for the talent of the developers).
Blockexplorer.com – Perhaps not as well designed as the others but definitely the longest existing block explorer. The website supplies the basic information for all Bitcoin transactions and wallets.
Insight.is – The Insight REST API provides a convenient, powerful and simple way to read data from the bitcoin network and build your own services with it.
And if you’re still looking for different block explorers you can try one of these as well: Blocktrail, Biteasy, BTClook, BitcoinChain.
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