<p>Let your explorer display the number of blocks confirmed.</p>

<p>As <a href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">satoshi explains in section 11 of the whitepaper</a>, a bitcoin transaction is never 100% final, but only the probability of it being not-final decreases with every confirmation. What probability of non-finality is good enough? </p>

<p>People could have any use-case so let people decide for themselves. Most want 6 confirmations safety to buy a car, some want 1 confirmation to buy coffee (and there are people like Roger Ver who want no confirmation!).</p>

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Thanks very much, its make sens and i can work with that :)
ParisNakitaKejser
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<p>I'm trying to build my own blockexplorer, and to this i need to update a single transtion with confrims, my problems is i can't see how meny confrims there shut be and when my transtion is 100% complated.</p>

<p>i'm using RPC and bitcoin logic but what i'm working on is a multi-currency explorer based on bitcoin rpc syntax.</p>

<p>i use gettransaction (hash) and in this i can only se how many confrims, what do i wrong here?</p>

<p>i know i can say 6 confirms+ will be 100% complated, but the confirms still get bigger after 6 confirms, so i need to know when i shut stop to update my transtion on my blockexplorer project.</p>

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How to look about transtion is complated?
ParisNakitaKejser
# How to look about transtion is complated?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-16)

I'm trying to build my own blockexplorer, and to this i need to update a single transtion with confrims, my problems is i can't see how meny confrims there shut be and when my transtion is 100% complated.

i'm using RPC and bitcoin logic but what i'm working on is a multi-currency explorer based on bitcoin rpc syntax.

i use gettransaction (hash) and in this i can only se how many confrims, what do i wrong here?

i know i can say 6 confirms+ will be 100% complated, but the confirms still get bigger after 6 confirms, so i need to know when i shut stop to update my transtion on my blockexplorer project.

**Tags:** bitcoind, json-rpc, blockexplorer


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-02-16. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Let your explorer display the number of blocks confirmed.

As [satoshi explains in section 11 of the whitepaper](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf), a bitcoin transaction is never 100% final, but only the probability of it being not-final decreases with every confirmation. What probability of non-finality is good enough?

People could have any use-case so let people decide for themselves. Most want 6 confirmations safety to buy a car, some want 1 confirmation to buy coffee (and there are people like Roger Ver who want no confirmation!).

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks very much, its make sens and i can work with that :)  

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