Okay, so I loaded Knots on an old laptop and downloaded the Bitcoin chain. It's synced, so I'm officially running my own node.
What can I use to explore the chain from my own node? I'm not a dev and every video I find is about `create your own block explorer from scratch'. Hints please?
What OS?
Windows.
Don't hate me.
You’ll probably want to use Docker. Google “mempool docker windows”. You can also ask grok or chatgbt to walk you through it.
I use a self hosted instance of mempool to check my own transactions for privacy but if I’m looking at other people’s transactions I just use mempool.space. Searching for older transactions can be resource intensive.
Make sure you have port 8333 open or your node won't show up on the network
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