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Ya this is really slick looking. There are some issues here and there but it's a new site so that is to be expected.

The close tie in with testnet is a nice touch. A lot of developers seem to forget that testnet is there to help them.

Do you plan on trying to farm additional details regarding transactions such as estimated originating IP address or known address labels?

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We already collect that information about relaying IPs (although you can never really be sure who is the originating IP). We have custom nodes that specifically listen for that information. However, we decided this wasn't useful enough to be included in the versioned API.

Although, we are about to release labs.helloblock API, which will include a bunch of experimental features, including information about IP addresses.

Out of curiosity, what do you plan to use information about IP addresses for?

I work in digital forensics so information like an IP address can be just another piece of the puzzle. It's not something we would base our entire case around but I'm sure it would be helpful in some way.

I certainly understand that it is just an estimate though, thanks to the beauty of the btc network in general and other fun tools like tor and your own transaction relay.

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