Transaction confirmations about blockchair.support HOT 11 CLOSED

Okay, I will upvote this issue. To calculate the "Confirmations", you have to visit https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash and quickly remember the highest block height at the top, and then read the "Included in block" number for the transaction yu are wondering about and subtract that number from that highest block height number, and then + 1, and that gives you the true "Confirmations" for that transaction you're wondering about.

But yes, it's getting very annoying from having to keep doing that for all the transactions. It seems like it'd be much easier for the website to perform these calculations by itself than to have all the humans to keep doing those calculations in their head all the time.

Thank you dbeckwith for your suggestion.

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Ah okay, I didn't realize that's how it was calculated. But yeah, it would be nice to just show that. Lots of other block explorer websites show you the actual number of confirmations.

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You are correct. It's much easier for a computer to compute the Confirmations than for us humans. I'm fairly confident that all other block explorer websites just show "0 Confirmations" for transactions that don't belong to any block. Otherwise they just show how many Confirmations. Even blockchain.info shows up to 100 confirmations before it's hidden from their interface.

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Thanks for the request and the comments, we’re working on it!

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Now the number of confirmations is shown under the General Info tab:

Once again, thanks for suggestions!

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Cool, looks good!

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What about the API ? There is no 'Block height' results to compute, hence 2 requests to be made.

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Hey @shideneyu,

There’s context.state in each API response containing the number of the latest block.

So, for example, you request http://api.blockchair.com/bitcoin/dashboards/transaction/4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b

And then you subtract the block number from the state value (context.state - data. 4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b.transaction.block_id) — that would give you the number of confirmations.

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Thank you very much !

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To know the number of confirmations for a transaction, it's actually
(context.state - transaction.block_id + 1)

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@avamr, nice catch, it is indeed +1.

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