Building a transaction and block explorer

Block explorers are helpful tools, providing all the information about transaction processing and block details. In general, they are web applications communicating with blockchain nodes to display the network situation, avoiding the burden of repeatedly executing RPC calls (readercoin-cli) for you. There are multiple open source Bitcoin block explorers and, by searching around GitHub, you'll find projects such as Php-Bitcoin-explorer, and BitcoinJS explorer, Bitcoin-ABE. In the following guide, we will opt for Iquidus explorer.

Iquidus will read the Readercoin blocks, transform and load the data into its database, and present the information via a web interface.