People's republic of china'southward Great Firewall, a tool used to ban Chinese citizens from using sites like Google and Facebook, has listed a major explorer for Ethereum'due south (ETH) blockchain.

According to data from non-turn a profit monitoring organization GreatFire, China allegedly blocked ane of the most popular ETH block browsers, Etherscan, in October 2022. As of Dec. 3, Etherscan's domain remained inaccessible from IP addresses within mainland Mainland china, every bit reported by crypto publication Coindesk on Dec. 3.

Etherscan is aware of the block, firm's CEO says

While the Etherscan's blockage was largely unnoticed, the firm's CEO Matthew Tan reportedly said that Etherscan noticed the action "within the last iii months," Coindesk reports. Cointelegraph contacted Etherscan'southward team to confirm the information simply the firm hadn't responded as of publication.

The block's timeline

According to GreatFire, which collects a database of websites blocked by the Dandy Firewall, Etherscan was purportedly still intact with "no censorship detected" as of Aug. 17, 2022.

The Ethereum cake browser was fully blocked past Oct. 29, 2022, while the exact time of the block is not reported by GreatFire.

Other ETH blockchain explorers still accessible in China

Meanwhile, other Ethereum cake explorers are all the same intact in China. Equally reported past Coindesk, a localized version of the browser, cn.etherscan.com, is accessible to Chinese users as of press time.

A block explorer is a website or a tool that allows users to track blocks, wallet addresses, network hashrate, transaction data and other key data on a certain blockchain, like the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain, the Litecoin (LTC) blockchain, or the Ethereum blockchain. For Bitcoin, at that place are a number of block explorers, including Blockchain.com, Blockexplorer.com, or Btc.com.

Meanwhile, Etherscan is just one of a number of cake explorers such as Etherchain.org and Ethplorer.io. In March 2022, major Ethereum wallet supplier MyEtherWallet announced the launch of the alpha version of its new open-source Ethereum blockchain explorer, EthVM.