Mining Kings Deserve the Best.

Through our Google Analytics we noticed a trend within the first 4 weeks of being live. People were clicking off on to the Block, Transaction and Address Explorer links at a higher than expected rate. So we thought, how do we incorporate the “explorer” part of the network into our site without distracting the user or confusing them?

Ubiq Blocks Explorer on UBQKings.com

User experience (and the end-to-end mining experience) is the top priority for us. When you’re the last pool (and now explorer) to the party you have to nail every aspect of the user journey. By introducing a block explorer we were not going to be throwing all the data we could get our hands on at our users. We went through each use case several times to understand what data a miner would need and also what a non-miner would need. We believe we have found a good spot between presentation and data.

New Home Page for UBQKings.com

We revamped our home screen to include several elements of the new Explorer sections. We also added views for Transactions, Addresses and Blocks. We handle the viewing of all current Tokens (including Escher).

Ubiq Mining Pool Distribution on UBQKings.com

We also took the time to add some monitoring to the rest of the pools on the network. We poll each pool every 5 minutes and then store and aggregate their blocks, miners and hashrate stats. This allows us to get a pretty good understanding of the state of the network. It also allows us to compare each pool across multiple baselines. Check out our new Explorer Pools page for more details.

Lastly, we also took the time to do some quality of life improvements from the feedback we have received via our site and also on our Discord community.

We hope you enjoy this new feature offering and the improvements we’ve made!

Happy Mining :)