Replaced blockexplorer.com with biteasy.com under Charts and statistics....

[biteasy]

... Blockexplorer.com breaks all the time, it's outdated and simply can not handle the load any more.
Biteasy.com has been stable for the last 8+ months and it has a modern and fresh design, worthy of being listed in the bitcoin.org resources.

[saivann]

Agreed on blockexplorer being often broken, I also though about replacing it recently.

@biteasy The title of your page mentions "Wallet / Merchant services". Did you plan to launch a web wallet? This could be an issue because promoting to such services is controversial.

Might also be worth replacing blockexplorer in translations if this pull gets merged:
sed -i 's_http://blockexplorer.com_https://www.biteasy.com/_g' _translations/*

[harding]

I just gave BitEasy a try and was surprised not just by how nice it looked but also by the fact that it automatically detected when I pasted in a testnet txid and took me to its /testnet page for that transaction.

In my quick test, the only thing it didn't do that I know blockexplorer does is handle partial addresses such as those printed on Cassius physical bitcoins (and used by some people on signs and stuff).

[biteasy]

@saivann, we are planning to add wallet and merchant services in the future (not happening any time soon) so that title is a bit inaccurate and probably needs editing. I am not sure why is this an issue though, blockchain.info is also listed under Charts and statistics and it has a Wallet as well.

I will edited the translations as well in a bit.

@harding, thank you for the nice words. Partial addresses is in our plans but not in the ones with high priority right now. If you have any more feedback we would happily take it :)

[schildbach]

I support the listing of BitEasy. I especially value the fact that they do support testnet, unlike bc.i. FWIW, BitEasy is currently linked from Bitcoin Wallet if you browse either a transaction, a block or an address. I never got any complaints from users.

[saivann]

@schildbach @harding Thanks for your feedback!

@biteasy Can you make the change I asked earlier?

Re Web wallet: It's just important to be careful when listing such services, and I wanted to make sure the main page wouldn't be mostly replaced by a web wallet in a few weeks.

[harding]

@biteasy when you update the translations using @saivann's code, can you also update the one blockexplorer link in _includes/references.md ? (If not, I'll push a change myself.) Thanks.

[biteasy]

@saivann, I pushed the change. As for the web wallet I promise to give you a heads up when I have a release date in order to have time to decide what to do, although it's definitely not happening in the next few weeks. Also, we are not planning to completely replace main page with the wallet so no worries.

@schildbach, thanks for the support, I appreciate it.

@harding, done.

[saivann]

LGTM! In the absence of critical feedback, this pull request will be merged on July 1th.

@biteasy Thanks, that's appreciated. Although I doubt there will be real issues as long as the wallet isn't heavily promoted from the stats page. Thanks for your work on biteasy, it's a very nice block chain explorer tool :) .

[biteasy]

Thank you very much @saivann , good to have your support and I assure you that you will get notified regarding wallet/merchant changes.