Bitmain launches new product BTC Blockchain and activates million-dollar domain name btc.com

On September 28, 2015, Bitmain's new product BTC Block (chain.btc.com) was officially launched. As a block browser product, BTC Block is completely independently developed by Bitmain and has relatively complete data query functions and API query services.

The following is an introduction from Bitmain’s official blog:

BTC Blockchain mainly consists of five parts, namely homepage, block, statistics, tools and API. The homepage consists of three parts: the latest block record, mining pool share, and network status. The data is refreshed in real time through WebSocket, dynamically reflecting various data indicators of Bitcoin; the block menu uses the top date selector to conveniently browse the block data of any date since the birth of Bitcoin. We provide some APIs (more will be opened in the future). With these APIs, some lightweight Bitcoin applications can be modified. Bitmain's "BTC Wallet" is based on these APIs.

Although Bitmain is providing block browsing WEB services for the first time, its basic data has evolved to the latest V2 version. The new V2 architecture has efficient processing performance, more dimensional data, and fast deployment capabilities. In particular, the efficient data initialization service can be deployed from scratch within a few hours even if unpredictable serious bugs occur. At present, the number of Bitcoin addresses and transactions is close to 100 million (there are hundreds of millions or billions of associated data), and the goal of completing deployment within a few hours is very challenging.

Top-level domain btc.com quietly changes hands

The three letters "BTC" are the abbreviation of Bitcoin. It is simple, straightforward, easy to input and remember.

As early as the beginning of August 2014, Bitcoin's top-level domain name BTC.com was acquired by Josh Garza, CEO of mining machine developer GAWMiners, for a high price of US$1.1 million (equivalent to RMB 6.8 million).

Currently, the BTC.com domain name has pointed to the Bitmain BTC block project. Pan Zhibiao, the person in charge of the BTC block, revealed to the editor that the domain name was acquired by Bitmain a few months ago, and the transaction amount was in the millions of US dollars.

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